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| Has attitude of BJP towards Hurriyat changed? | | Kashmir struggle not for autonomy | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Sept 10: Has the attitude of the BJP-led NDA Government at the Centre towards the Hurriyat leaders changed? Has the Union Government finally realized that the movement in Kashmir is not for autonomy but for the establishment of "Islamic theocracy"?
Answers to both these important questions seem in the affirmative when viewed in the light of reports emanating from New Delhi. Reports suggest that the Narendra Modi Government has come to the conclusion that the current unrest in Kashmir "has little to with the demand for more autonomy for the state" and that "it is driven primarily by a desire to establish an Islamic theocracy".
This had been clear for quite some time now. Muzaffar Hussain Baig, a Member of Parliament from Mehbooba Mufti's Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and former Deputy Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, had only recently acknowledged that there is now a strong strain of "Pakistaniyat" in the Valley, with some of the strains of 'azadi' merging with the ideas of global jihad and Islamic State (ISIS). He was, in fact, stressing that "attempts to start talks on greater autonomy within the Indian constitution and dilution of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) may not be enough to bring peace".
The government in Delhi has also realised that and now has decided not to give any concessions because it thinks doing so will achieve little at this stage.
Reports clearly suggest that the "Centre is in no mood to blink in the face of violence" and add "Going forward, the government will likely toughen its stand as it believes that the current round of unrest in the valley is fuelled in order to overthrow a democratically elected government, and install a theocracy in its place".
Reports say that "the government is dispatching PAVA shells, the chilli-based substitute for pellet guns, in bulk, at the rate of 1,000 each day to Jammu and Kashmir" and that "the paramilitary troopers deployed in the state for Amarnath Yatra won't be pulled out and there is no question of diluting the AFSPA".
"The possibility of the government holding talks with Hurriyat leaders also looks bleak, not least because they are unreasonable and parrot the line of Rawalpindi. The government no longer thinks that the separatists are in control. Their movement was for the autonomy of Kashmiri people (or that's what they told us) but the present crisis is fuelled by a new generation of self-radicalised youth who want to usher violence in the valley. So, there is no use talking to separatists when they have become irrelevant. They fear for their own lives, so much so that they couldn't even muster up the courage to talk to politicians like Sitaram Yechury and D. Raja who don't even belong to India's mainstream parties. The Hurriyat is a paper tiger, and real power now rests with the mob," the report said.
If true, it is a welcome step that Delhi has decided to toughen its stand because there can be no solution when the state is in "retreat". |
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