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| Crucial Census Exercise: Jammu needs to imitate Kashmir | | | RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, May 26: Why is this writer questioning the view of Kashmiri leaders that Kashmir has more population? Why because the view appears both ridiculous, flawed and motivated. It needs to be noted that the population difference between Kashmir and Jammu was never so huge between 1941 and 1991. In fact, in 1941, the population of Jammu was more as compared to Kashmir. It is a fact that many Muslims migrated from Jammu to Pakistan in 1947 in the wake of the country's communal partition. But it is also a hard fact that nearly cent per cent non-Muslims, including Hindus and Sikhs, from Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir migrated to Jammu the same year to escape their physical liquidation at the hands of the votaries of the pernicious two-nation theory. And, yet the Kashmiri leadership, in collaboration with New Delhi, manipulated 43 seats for Kashmir. Jammu was forced to remain content with just 30 seats. Remember, there was no census in Jammu and Kashmir in 1951. Whatever the Kashmiri leadership did was an arbitrary action.
That the population difference between Kashmir and Jammu was never so huge could also be seen from other census figures. It would be only prudent to quote the census figures so that things are set straight. In 1961, the population of Kashmir was eighteen lakh and that of Jammu sixteen lakh - difference only two lakhs. In 1971, the population of Kashmir was 24,35,701 and that of Jammu 20,75,640 - difference 3,60,661. In 1981, the population of Kashmir was 31,34,904 and that of Jammu 27,18,113 - difference 4,16,791. In 1991, the State was excluded from the census exercise. But, according to the Department of Economics and Statistics, Government of Jammu and Kashmir, the population of Kashmir in 1991 was 40,10,202 and that of Jammu 35,37,957 - difference 4,72,245.
Now have a glance at the population growth in Kashmir and Jammu between 1961 and 2001. Such an exercise is very important to call the Kashmiri leaders' bluff. Between 1961 and 1971, Kashmir witnessed population growth to the tune of 6,35,061 and Jammu 4,75,000 - difference 1,60,061. Between 1971 and 1981, while Kashmir witnessed population growth to the tune of 6,99,203, Jammu's population increased by 6,42,473 - difference 56,730. Between 1981 and 1991, the population in Kashmir increased by 8,75,298 and Jammu's by 8,19,844 - difference 55,454. And, between 1991 and 2001, while Kashmir registered growth in population by 14,66,768, the population in Jammu increased by 9,02,234 - difference 5,64,534. It is unbelievable. These are obviously fudged figures.
This huge, huge difference of 5,64,534 should clinch the whole issue and prove that those at the helm did commit a fraud on the people of Jammu province Jammu with a view to countering the movement in Jammu for representation as per the 2002 voters strength, if not on the basis of population. Paradoxically, the then Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister L K Advani rubbished the complaint in Jammu that the census figures had been fudged. He told the Lok Sabha that the census exercise was free and fair.
That those at the helm of affairs in the state and New Delhi did play foul and fudged the census figures to benefit Kashmir is evident from two other major developments that took place in the State between 1990 and 2001. One, the population of Jammu suddenly increased by about three lakh because of the migration of Kashmiri Hindus from the militant-infested Valley. Two, the population of Kashmir decreased by about five lakh owing to the migration of Kashmiri Hindus, Kashmiri Sikhs and Kashmiri Muslims from the Valley to Jammu and elsewhere in the country. Besides, the population in Kashmir also further decreased because of several thousand deaths in the militancy-related incidents. (To be continued)
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