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RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, May 20: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will visit Srinagar for two days. He will reach the summer capital on June 7. According to reports, the purpose of his Kashmir visit is two-fold. He would address convocation of the Sher-e-Kashmir Agricultural University, besides renewing offer for talks to separatists. He is also likely to meet representatives of the various political parties to ascertain their views on ways and means that could help restore peace in the Kashmir Valley. Reports also suggest that the Prime Minister is likely to discuss the progress made on the reports of the five Working Groups constituted by him some four years ago.
Prime Minister is Prime Minister and he can engage with the Pakistan-supported, well-entrenched, prosperous and highly motivated Kashmiri separatists, including murderers like Yasin Mohammad, who have been responsible for all that has happened in Kashmir during the past over 20 years, including thousands of deaths of innocent persons; destruction of schools, health centers and bridges; attacks on the army convoys, police stations, paramilitaries and school buses; and wholesale migration of the miniscule minority of Kashmiri Pandits. He can renew offer for talks to those who have been consistently provoking and motivating the innocent and gullible Kashmiri youth to pelt stones on our jawans and confront the police and paramilitary forces; and who have all disturbed the socio-religious and political equilibrium in the Valley with a view to converting it into a zone where only the followers of one particular religion could live and dictate terms. He can engage with those whose agenda is not only Kashmir, but who also want to break and destroy India because they consider India as their number one enemy and because they want to give a particular orientation to everything Indian so that they are able to annihilate everyone who does not share their primitive, intolerant and exclusivist ideology.
The Prime Minister is the executive head of the country. He can order the concerned authorities to implement in full the recommendations as contained in the reports of the Working Groups he constituted. He can also oblige the votaries of self-rule and autonomy by asking the concerned authorities to implement the recommendations as embodied in the Justice Saghir Ahmad report - all Kashmir-centric. There is nothing whatsoever in these reports that could mitigate the hardships of the people of Jammu province, people of Ladakh, displaced Kashmiri Pandits, refugees from West Pakistan, refugees from Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir and border migrants of 1965 and 1971 and each one of these interests has already rejected outright all these lop-sided reports.
As for self-rule and autonomy, they are two sides of the same coin. Both these concepts suggest withdrawal of all the Central laws and institutions from the state. In other words, self-rule and autonomy mean a dispensation outside the Indian Constitution and a step short of complete independence. To be more precise, the self-rule and autonomy at once mean splendid victory of communal politics and negation of the very constitutional framework of India; negation of the very idea of India.
The only difference between the two highly communal and fundamentally separatist concepts - self-rule and autonomy - is that while the protagonists of self-rule openly advocate the Pakistani cause by talking in terms of supra-state measures or shared sovereignty, the protagonists of autonomy do not focus much on this aspect. It is, however, true that the votaries of autonomy, like the protagonists of self-rule, also want New Delhi to take Pakistan on board because they believe that Pakistan is a party to the Kashmir "dispute". This is the only contradiction and this is easily reconcilable. In fact, the manner in which the votaries of self-rule and autonomy have been operating in Kashmir for quite sometime now has already bridged to a considerable extent the gap between the two. It's all game of one-upmanship that has dominated the Kashmir's religio-political scene.
There is nothing wrong in engaging with these regressive and medievalist forces. The only pre-condition is that the Prime Minister needs to repudiate with contempt each and every demand put forth by these primitive and intolerant forces, which represent the viewpoint of only a microscopic minority because the Prime Minister is constitutionally bound to defend the Indian Constitution. (To be continued)
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