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| 'Article 370 a breeding ground for parasites': Jagmohan | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 13: Former Jammu & Kashmir Governor Jagmohan wants Article 370 to go. He says this Article is nothing but a breeding ground for the parasites at the heart of paradise.
"Article 370 is nothing but a breeding ground for the parasites at the heart of the paradise. It skins the poor. It deceives them with its mirage. It lines the pockets of the 'power elites'. It fans the ego of the new sultans, in essence, it creates a land without justice, a land full of crudities and contradictions. It props up politics of deception, duplicity and demagogy. It breeds the microbes of subversion. It keeps alive the unwholesome legacy of the two-nation theory. It suffocates the very idea of India and fogs the very vision of a great social and cultural crucible from Kashmir to Kanyakumari. It could be an epi-centre of a violent earth-quake, the tremors of which would be felt all over the country with unforeseen consequences," he says.
He also adds: "Over the years, it has become an instrument of exploitation in the hands of the ruling political elites and other vested interests in bureaucracy, business, judiciary and bar. Apart from the politicians, the richer classes have found it convenient to amass wealth and not allow healthy financial legislation to come to the State. The common people are prevented from realizing that Article 370 is actually keeping them impoverished and denying them justice and also their due share in the economic advancement".
"Events have reinforced my views that Article 370 and its by product, the separate Constitution of Jammu and Kashmir must go, not only because it is legally and constitutionally feasible to do so, but also because larger and more basic considerations of our past history and contemporary life require it. The Article merely facilitates the growth and continuation of corrupt oligarchies. It puts false notions in the minds of the youth. It gives rise to regional tensions and conflicts and even the autonomy assumed to be available is not attainable in practice. The distinct personality and cultural identity of Kashmir can be safeguarded without this Article. It is socially regressive and causes situations in which women lose their right if they marry non-State subjects and persons staying for in the State are denied elementary human and democratic rights. And, above all, it does not fit into the reality and requirement of India and its vast and varied span," he also says, and adds "what India needs today is not petty sovereignties that would sap its spirit and aspirations and turn it into small 'banana-republics' in the hands of 'tin-pot dictators', but a new social, political and cultural crucible in which values of truth and rectitude, of fairness and justice, and of compassion and catholicity, are melted, purified and molded into a vigorous and vibrant set- up which provides real freedom, real democracy and real resurgence to all".
What Jagmohan says is the general view of all the integrations in Jammu & Kashmir and refugees from Pakistan, Pakistan-occupied-Jammu & Kashmir and from Kashmir. But more than that, chairman of the Constitution Drafting Committee Dr BR Ambedkar, founder president of Bharatiya Jana Sangh Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee and even members of the Constituent Assembly persons like Hasrat Mohani had opposed it but Nehru and Congress overruled them to please Sheikh Abdullah. |
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