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| Time has come to rally round Mookerjee, Madhok | | J&K solution | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Sep 16: Kashmir is in turmoil. The Muslims there are up in revolt against India and they, in the words of PDP MP Muzaffar Hussain Baig, this time are not fighting for political gains but for something bigger which is based on Jinnah's two nation theory. He has virtually confronted the BJP with a choice between implementation of agenda of alliance and dissolution of the J&K Assembly. "The PDP and BJP must end ties if they can't implement the agenda of alliance," he on Thursday said.
The people of Jammu province are seething with anger and there prevails widespread disappointment and dissatisfaction among all, except within a limited circle that is close to the corridors of power. Their complaint is that the BJP has betrayed them and betrayed the mandate and threw in their lot with Kashmir. They say in private and openly that they cannot co-exist with the Kashmiri leadership whose single-point agenda is Kashmir.
The people of Ladakh are up in arms against Kashmir. Even the BJP, which is part of the state government and which is ruling the nation, has demanded separation of Ladakh from Kashmir for security reasons. All the political parties, religious organizations in Leh have joined hands against the Kashmiri domination over the state polity.
Internally-displaced Kashmiri Hindus, refugees from Pakistan and POJK are also up in arms. They accuse both the state government and the central government of ignoring their aspirations and needs and of adopting policies which are communally motivated and Kashmir-centric.
The fact is that none is happy in the state and all are pulling in different directions. The situation is such as warrants a radical change in the 70-year-old policies, which till date guided the ruling elites at the centre and in the state - policies which do not suit the nation, as also do not suit the state and its regions.
It's time to follow what Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee and Prof Balraj Madhok advocated and preached and laid down their lives for. There were clear from day one that the J&K State was not a natural formation and that there was one region that dominated the two others. They wanted New Delhi to appreciate this reality and adopt policies which would be acceptable to all the three regions of the state and reorganize the state if that was not possible. The fact of the matter is that both had given the nation to understand that while Kashmir stood for a dispensation outside the Indian constitutional framework, Jammu and Ladakh wanted to merge their identity completely with India.
What they said decades ago is true even today. Hence, Prime Minister Narendra Modi would do well to do what Mookerjee and Madhok said. Reorganize the state and limit the area of strife to the very small Valley. |
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