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| Needed: A bold initiative to resolve J&K, Mr PM | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Aug 10: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh may hold any number of meetings on J&K to find ways and means to tackle the issues confronting this sensitive border state, but he will come out of all such exercises minus everything. The reason: He is seeking to cure the disease without diagnosing the cause of ailment. It is indeed paradoxical that the persons at the helm in New Delhi have miserably failed to diagnose what ails J&K. The fact of the matter, according to one Kashmir-watcher, who himself is a victim of the disease, the powers-that-be in New Delhi want to cure a disease they themselves have nourished over the period and they continue to nourish.
It was not difficult to diagnose the ailment. The powers-that-be in New Delhi were simply required to examine the fundamental cause that caused a serious disease to the state’s body politic and the cause was quite visible. What caused the disease was the politics of separatism, based on religious fanaticism, as also the politics of one-upmanship and competitive communalism and separatism the Kashmiri leaders, without any exception, indulged in during all these 63 years of independence. It was quite evident from day one that they wanted cover under the Indian sovereignty to subvert the very sovereignty of India, but the persons at the helm in New Delhi, instead of understanding the dubious game-plan of the Kashmiri leaders and defeat it, chose not only to ignore it but also directly and indirectly helped them dot the state’s political scene at regular intervals with communal and separatist onslaughts and work systematically and meticulously to wreck the Indian state both from within and outside.
The persons at the helm not only allowed the politics of communalism, separatism and exclusion to grow in Kashmir, but they also on occasions flirted with the communal and separatist forces in the Kashmir Valley, overlooking the fact that Kashmir is just a small part of the state and that pandering to separatist and communal urges of the Kashmir leadership would boomerang in the long run. They not only flirted with them. They also shared power with them and gave full freedom to the secessionist forces, including the protagonists of autonomy and self-rule, so that they could vitiate the state’s socio-religious and political scene and prepare step-by-step ground leading up to what has been happening in the Kashmir Valley, particularly since June 20.
The authorities should have directed the J&K Chief Minister to isolate, book and proceed against those seeking another partition of India on the score of religion or those seeking merger of the state with Pakistan, again on the score of religion, but they didn’t so. On the contrary, they allowed him to play the role of opposition. The authorities in New Delhi did not act even at that time when the political advisor of the Chief Minister met Syed Ali Shah Geelani and told him that he was free to carry on anti-India and pro-Pakistan activities subject to the condition that he and his supporters will refrain from making the position of the state government “awkward.” The authorities should have acted at that time because what the political advisor told Geelani was nothing but an attempt at abdicating the state authority in favour of Geelani, who has been ruling the roost, issuing calendars at regular intervals and instigating the common people to take to violent methods in order to bleed India and fulfill his insatiable lust for blood.
The Prime Minister and his team of advisors and back channels continue to pursue the same old line. They continue to think in terms of curing the disease without diagnosing it. They are bound to fail. In case they really wish to cure the ailment, they have no other option but to deal firmly with those within and outside the political establishment in Kashmir who overtly or covertly work against India. At the same time, they have to cultivate, nourish, promote and empower the pro-India constituency in the state so that it could also help the authorities’ save-Kashmir endeavours. They must remember that the problem in Kashmir is neither political nor economic. The problem in Kashmir is one of worst form of communalism.
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