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| NC bats for semi-independence, says Delhi dishonest | | Crossing the line | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 15: Things in Kashmir are turning normal slowly but surely. Yesterday, over one lakh students appeared in 12th class examinations and the event passed off peacefully. Nowhere stone throwers were found. Today, the response of the Kashmiri students was also very inspiring and they were present in the examination halls almost in full strength. That almost 95 percent students took part in the examinations simply suggest that the four-month-old anti-India movement has almost fizzled out and that the general populace have finally decided to care more for the education of their children then obeying the diktats of the mercenaries like Geelani, Mirwaiz and Malik.
The restoration of near normalcy in Kashmir has, of course, rattled Kashmiri separatists and it is quite understandable. What is disturbing is the line the frustrated NC has taken. It has accused the Government of India of reinforcing alienation among Kashmiri youth by not conceding what it called the political demand of the Kashmiri youth. It has said that the Kashmiri youth is alienated not because of unemployment or otherwise or governance or no governance but because their basic political urge has not been fulfilled.
"The youth of Kashmir are not alienated from the Centre because of lack of development or poor governance nor because of Hurriyat or Pakistan but inherently due to a political disempowerment of the state that started in 1953 when the state's autonomy came under an extra-constitutional and illegitimate assault," the NC has said.
"The political sentiment was not an 'invention' of Pakistan or of separatists. Kashmiris would have espoused this political sentiment with or without Pakistan, with or without the separatist leaders. While Pakistan will obviously try to exact its own agenda out of such situations, Hurriyat leaders are today following the agitation rather than leading or orchestrating it. They are as clueless about this agitation as anyone," the NC further said.
The charge of the NC is ill-designed, ill-motivated and sinister. It is Kashmir which has been at the helm of affairs since 1947 without any break. Chief Minister of the state always has been from the Valley. The civil secretariat, the seat of the government, is also controlled by Kashmir. Almost all the major portfolios are with Kashmiris. The fact of the matter is that Kashmir is the only region in the country which is politically and economically very powerful.
Again, the charge that New Delhi has disempowered Kashmir politically by eroding state's autonomy is spurious. New Delhi has not imposed one central law on J&K against the will of the state or without its concurrence. Even the NC-appointed autonomy committee admitted in its report that that all the 260 central laws were extended to the state with the concurrence of the state government. Not just this, at least 19 new central laws were introduced in the state after Sheikh Abdullah was reinstalled as Chief Minister in February 1975.
The point is that the NC wants to set Kashmir on fire by raking up non issues without realizing that there are people of Jammu and Kashmir also who are as important factors as Kashmir.
The problem of CM Mehbooba Mufti is that she is face to face with parties like the NC, which is irresponsible and which can go to any extent to ensure that the Kashmir pot remains boiling. She has to check such undesirable forces in the larger interest of the state and the country as a whole. |
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