Divide state and tackle one community region of Kashmir: Hari Om tells Modi
Terming PDP, NC, Congress and CPI-M as chips of the same anti-Jammu and anti-India block, senior ‘BJP leader’ and former political advisor to J&K BJP, president Prof Hari Om, Wednesday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to divide the state to end alienation in Jammu province and tackle the restive, radicalised and one-community region of Kashmir.
Segregation of Jammu province from Kashmir Valley is the need of the nation and exigency of the time, he said. He added that the dangerous developments which unfolded in Kashmir after October 3 in and outside the State Legislature and the utterly irresponsible and provocative manner in which Kashmiri lawmakers conducted themselves vindicated the age-old stand of the oppressed, suppressed, economically ignored and politically marginalised people of Jammu province that they had nothing whatsoever common between them and the people of the Valley in respect of needs, compulsions, culture, ethnicity, language and political aspirations and that they represent the nation in the state.
“The needs, compulsions, culture, ethnicity, language and political aspirations of the people of Jammu province are different from those of the Kashmiri leadership, both separatist and otherwise. The people of Jammu province, like Ladakh, long for their complete merger with India and abrogation of anti-democratic, anti-people and divisive Articles 370 and 35-A of the Indian Constitution. The Kashmiri leaders, on the other hand, stand for limited or no accession at all with India. While the people of Jammu province celebrate as ‘a historic day’ the day of accession, the Kashmiri leaders of all hues observe this day as ‘black day’.
Whereas the people of Jammu province vouch for democratic and liberal values and assert day in and day out that the accession of the state with India is final, irrevocable and unconditional, Kashmiri leaders of all varieties hurt their nationalist psyche in a most brazen manner by questioning the political status of the state vis-à-vis India,” said Prof Hari Om, and asserted that their concepts of India and on India are contradictory and mutually exclusive.
The senseless and undesirable resolve of the authorities in New Delhi to yoke together the people of Jammu province and Kashmir Valley under a single state has only led to a growing discontent in Jammu province,” asserted BJP leader, adding that the failure of the authorities to appreciate this stark reality in the state will culminate in the destruction of the fabric that was built up for the governance of the state consisting of three disparate regions of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh. The people of Jammu province have, in fact, already rejected as Kashmir-centric the existing politico-constitutional, administrative and economic structure, he said, and asserted that the imperialist Kashmiri leadership has converted Jammu province into the Valley’s colony.
In a statement to CNS, Prof Hari Om drew the attention of the Prime Minister to the nature of the mandate the BJP got in Jammu province and Ladakh both in 2014 and 2015 and said the mandates were clearly for their unity and integrity with India and for their proper empowerment. “They voted against the pro-self-rule PDP, the pro-greater autonomy NC and the pro-1975 Indira Sheikh Abdullah Accord and the result was that all these Kashmir-based and Valley-centric parties got virtually decimated in the two regions of Jammu and Ladakh, which house more than half of the state’s population and occupy almost 90 per cent of the state’s land area,” said BJP leader, adding that the Jammu and Ladakh mandates were “for a dispensation independent of Kashmir and within India and under the Indian Constitution, minus atrocious and discriminatory Articles 370 and 35-A”.
The BJP leader opined that the segregation of Jammu province and Ladakh region from Kashmir will not only end alienation in these two regions, but also greatly help policy planners in New Delhi tackle in an effective manner the restive and radicalised Kashmir Valley. Prof Hari Om urged Prime Minister Modi to look all these facts in the face and promote the paramount national interest in this sensitive part of the country by dividing the state into three states. He said there is but one way in which the national interest in this part of the country could be protected and promoted, alienation in Jammu province ended and the restive Kashmir tackled and that is by ending the unnatural wedlock between Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh. (CNS)
