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| Dixon Plan: Moves appear afoot to divide Jammu on communal lines | | | RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, June 18: Significantly, the attitude of the Indian Press to the Dixon Plan was no different from that of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's. According to the Hindu (September 22, 1950), Sir Owen Dixon "had not made it even of his secondary aims to establish right over might in Kashmir." The Hindustan Times (August 25, 1950) described the Dixon Plan "as one more of Alice in the wonderland developments." As per Amrita Bazar Patrika (September 24, 1950), "the diplomat in him had got the better of his sense of justice." The National Herald (August 25, 1950) was no less severe in its criticism. It said, "by this amazing final proposal, Dixon has forfeited the confidence India had in his judicial temper and impartiality."
And, it is this archaic and out-and-out anti-India and essentially communal Dixon Plan that certain elements in India want to implement in order to end the conflict over Jammu and Kashmir and conciliate Pakistan and its agents in Kashmir. Obviously, they are overlooking the grave evils that would follow on the implementation of the pernicious Dixon Plan, including bloodshed and displaced of people, Hindus and Muslims included, in Jammu province. It needs to be noted that the immediate fall-out of the implementation of Dixon Plan would the merger of such areas parts of Udhampur, Doda, Reasi and Jammu districts, including Akhnoor; and the whole of Poonch and Rajouri districts into Pakistan or their merger with the Muslim Kashmir.
One can understand the reasons behind the support being extended by Pakistan and its agents in Kashmir and other parts of India, including Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and A G Noorani, to the Dixon Plan that seeks to divide Jammu province along Chenab River on purely communal lines. After all, the implementation of the Dixon Plan does help Pakistan establish physical control over the Chenab River and enables Islamabad to meet the water needs of the threatening Sindh, Baluchistan and North West Frontier Province. Islamabad believes that the physical control over the Chenab River alone would help it preserve the unity and integrity of Pakistan. These three provinces are against Punjab and one of the reasons behind their anger is the water policy Punjab-dominate government in Pakistan has evolved and implemented. After all, the implementation of the Dixon Plan also helps those in Kashmir who are talking in terms of self-rule, joint-management, supra-state measures, dual currency, demilitarization and theocratic dispensation.
But one fails to understand by the parties like the BJP, which otherwise consistently claims that it would not accept any solution that dilutes the Indian sovereignty in Jammu and Kashmir and that it stands for the state's total merger with India and abrogation of Article 370, has been considering the Dixon Plan as a solution to the Kashmir issue. Similarly, one fails to understand why are certain elements in the Congress-led UPA government thinking in terms of accepting the Dixon Plan as a solution to the Kashmir problem?
The BJP and the UPA government would do well to reject outright any suggestion that divides Jammu on communal lines; that facilitates the formation of Greater Kashmir comprising the Muslim Kashmir and the Muslim and the non-Muslim-dominated areas of Jammu province and Ladakh region and that recognizes Islamabad as one of the most important factor in the Indian Jammu and Kashmir. They would also do well to remember that the implementation of the 1950 Dixon Plan would not lead to bloodshed and displacement of populations in Jammu province and victory of Pakistan and the Kashmiri communalists, but would also mean no control whatsoever of India over the northern frontiers. It is good that persons like Bali Bhagat, Hari Om, Ajay Chrungoo and Abdul Rouf have come forward to educate the public about the dangerous ramifications of the implementation of the Dixon Plan. (Concluded)
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