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| In Kashmir, NC for Hurriyat, in Jammu, NC says secularism under strain | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 6: The Kashmir-based NC considers people of Jammu province fool. It thinks the people of Jammu cannot understand what they say and does in Srinagar, Jammu, Delhi and elsewhere in the country. It also has the temerity to speak in double-voice on the same day at two different places in J&K itself.
See what Farooq Abdullah, former J&K Chief Minister and party president, said at the mausoleum of his father Sheikh Abdullah on the occasion of 111th birth anniversary in Srinagar and what provincial president Devendra Rana said in Jammu on the same occasion.
In Srinagar, Farooq Abdullah offered his party's unqualified support to the Pakistan-founded Hurriyat Conference and said the NC all through stood for "freedom". He termed Kashmiri Muslims a "nation" and asked the Hurriyat to carry forward its break-India movement so that not just Kashmir but the entire State of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh got freedom from India.
But more than that, he declared that he will ask his party workers "not to stay away from the Hurriyat Conference-led anti-India movement" but also said that it was Maharaja Hari Singh and not his father Sheikh Abdullah acceded the State to India to claim that it was Sheikh Abdullah who acceded the state to India. This was the kind of secularism Farooq Abdullah preached in Srinagar to further widen the already rather wide gulf between Kashmiri Muslims and all other Indians.
The fact is that Farooq Abdullah on December 5 left none in any doubt that he was with the Hurriyat and the State's separation from India.
And see what Devendra Rana said in Jammu. He said secularism was under strain as reactionary and fascist forces were working overtime to divide the nation on religious, regional, ethnical and caste lines.
"Compartmentalizing society on religious lines is against the idea of India," he said while paying homage to Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah on his 111th birth anniversary at Sher-e-Kashmir Bhavan, forgetting that Sheikh Abdullah murdered secularism and democracy in 1947 itself, when he didn't allow persecuted and under threat Hindus and Sikhs from Muzaffrabad (administratively part of Kashmir) to enter Kashmir or settle in Srinagar and other areas of the Valley and forced them to migrate to Jammu province.
"This (secular bonding) is the spirit which has all along guided the National Conference," he said while recalling what he called the cherished slogan of "Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christian, Buddhist ethos" raised by Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah during horrendous era of the Partition. He didn't say that all these communities live in Jammu and not anywhere in Kashmir.
Rana also said "those who indulged in polarized politics might have derived short-term dividends, but continuation of this trend could prove detrimental to the larger interest of the nation" and added that "such a myopic mindset would impede country's growth as a vibrant, forward looking, progressive and dynamic nation, capable of emerging as a world leader by the strength of its glorious civilization and human resource".
By saying what he said he only sought to prove that the NC takes the people of Jammu province for a ride and doesn't care for their aspirations, urges and compulsions. That he attacked only the BJP and the RSS and not spoke a word against the Hurriyat and those who brought death and destruction to the state to identify them with the terrorist Pakistan only established that Rana represents a view with is patently Kashmir and Kashmiri Muslim-centric. |
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