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| 'Trifurcation as a solution to Kashmir issue' | | Limiting area of strife | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Sept 11: Ongoing violent movement in Kashmir has triggered a debate not only in Jammu and Ladakh on the political future of the state but also in important circles in Delhi. Many have suggested trifurcation of J&K into Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh states. They have put forth arguments which the people of Jammu and Ladakh put forth from time to time after the state acceded to India and the provocation came from Kashmir itself: Demand for autonomy from India raised by the Kashmir-based NC, a votary of Kashmiri Muslim sub-nationalism.
The demand in Jammu and Ladakh for their separation from Kashmir is 70 year old. In Jammu, it was late Balraj Madhok, a great Jan Sangh leader, who raised the pitch and demanded separation of Jammu from Kashmir. In Ladakh, it was Kushok Bakula, the Head Lama of Ladakh, who demanded separation of Ladakh from Kashmir. The arguments advanced by both the leaders were identical.
Almost similar arguments are being advanced by some trouble-shooters in New Delhi and to make their point that have quoted leaders like BR Ambedkar. They have said there is nothing unconstitutional in the demand and that in this demand, they say, lies a lasting solution to the Kashmir issue.
They have said BR Ambedkar, chairman of the Constitution Drafting Committee and Law Minister in the Government of JL Nehru, had also suggested trifurcation of the state as a lasting solution. "While resigning from the Nehru Cabinet, Dr B R Ambedkar had supported the idea of J&K's trifurcation," they have said. They have also said that late Union Home Minister Inderjit Gupta (CPI national general secretary), had also told the Lok Sabha that "trifurcation of J&K could be one solution" and that the state was inhabited not only by "Kashmiri Sunnis, but also by Dogras, Buddhists, Gujjars and Bakerwals, Shiite Muslims, Sikhs and other religious ethnic minorities". Besides, they have said that late Union President R Venkataraman had also urged Indira Gandhi to trifurcate the state.
They have also referred to the June 30, 2002 resolution on J&K's trifurcation the RSS adopted at Kurukshetra. The resolution had said that division of J&K was essential to preserve and promote the identity of Jammu and Ladakh and end discrimination with them.
The basic arguments these conflict-managers in Delhi have advanced are three. One is that J&K is not an organic political unit or that it consists of three distinct regions. The other is that there is nothing whatsoever common between these three regions and their artificial unity has only complicated the issue. And the third is that the separation of Jammu and Ladakh is imperative in order to limit the area of strife to the Valley, which constitutes about 5 per cent of the state's total land area. They say separation of Jammu and Ladakh from the Valley is imperative not only for security reasons but also to prevent the separatists from extending their area of activities beyond the Valley. |
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