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| October 26 is historic day | | Celebrating accession - 1I | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Oct 26: Geelani and the likes in Kashmir say that Jammu & Kashmir is a disputed territory, that its political status has yet to be determined and that they consider accession of the state to India an act of coercion. They are absolutely wrong.
They are only distorting facts and murdering history because no one in Delhi has really contested them and countered their misinformation campaign supported by Pakistan and certain vested interests in the establishment both in Jammu & Kashmir and New Delhi. In fact, it is the political establishment that has been sustaining the anti-India movement in Kashmir since decades. Had New Delhi diagnosed the Kashmir's ailment and tackled it properly, there would not have been Geelanis, Mirwaizs, Maliks and so on. To be more exact, India is paying the price for the follies New Delhi committed from time to time to appease the communalists and separatists in the Valley.
It needs to be noted that Jammu & Kashmir, like other 560-odd princely states, was not part of the partition plan under which India was divided on August 14 on communal lines to set up Muslim Pakistan. It was British India which was to be divided into two nations - India and Pakistan. As for the princely states, their fate was to be decided by the rulers of the respective states.
The Indian Independence Act of 1947 under which Pakistan came into being and the princely states acceded to India or Pakistan nowhere said that the fate of the princely states will be decided by the people of these states and not by the princes, rajas and maharajas.
Not just this, the Indian Independence Act of 1947 doesn't even remotely provide for limited or conditional accession. It says the states once acceded would remain part of the acceding dominions.
Maharaja Hari Singh, like other princes, exercised the authority vested in him by the Indian Independence Act and took a momentous decision to link the fate of his people with the democratic India.
And the Indian Independence Act is the only valid official document. No statement made by any body or any forum cannot change the status of the state. No UN resolution can alter the Indian Independence Act. To alter it would mean the end of Pakistan.
And it was not for nothing that the Jammu & Kashmir Constituent Assembly ratified the Maharaja's decision and it ensured that there must be a section in the Jammu & Kashmir Constitution that clears all the confusion and establishes once and for all that Jammu & Kashmir was, is and shall ever remain part of India. Section 3 of the state constitution clears the confusion. Not only this, the state constitution clearly says that PoJK and Gilgit-Baltistan are integral part of India and it has also reserved for the people of these occupied areas 24 seats in the Jammu & Kashmir Assembly.
The Indian Constitution further calls the bluff of the anti-nationals in Kashmir and their supporters in Delhi and elsewhere by stating in unambiguous terms that Jammu & Kashmir is an integral part of India. Besides, the unanimous parliamentary resolution of February 1994 clearly tells the international community that the only issue of conflict between India and Pakistan is PoJK and Gilgit-Baltistan.
Let the separatists observe black day on October 27, the day the Indian Army landed in Kashmir to punish and expel the Pakistani intruders and barbarians. They will not gain anything.
The fact of the matter is that October 26 is a day of celebrations and the people of Jammu observe this day as a day of thanks-giving. (concluded) |
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