Respected Prime Minister Modi Ji,
On this 14th September, which We, the EXILED AND GENOCIDE-VICTIM HINDUS OF KASHMIR, have been commemorating as ‘Balidan Divas’ since 1990, all across the world whereever we exist, do make the following unanimous submission to your goodself. This submission stands adopted unanimously by the delegates attending the Annual Convention of Panun Kashmir.
Having the Interests of the nation of Bharat at heart;
Committed to the peace and progress of the nation;
Supporting all such efforts of Government of India which bring security and prosperity to the people of India; and
Faced with the continuing spectre of genocide unleashed upon us
We seek the attention and consideration of your goodself to the following:
Article 370
The neutring of Article 370 and removal of Article 35-A as well as reorganisation of Jammu and Kashmir into two Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, were hailed and described as Epochal liberating acts by Panun Kashmir.
We were in the fore-front of the struggle against draconian Article 370 which was an acceptance of the Principal of the Two-nation theory on the territory and India, and kept Pakistan alive in Jammu and Kashmir. It not only kept the people of Jammu and Kashmir outside the constitutional organization of India but the very enactment of this provision was a negation of the vision of India based on the principles of democracy, equality and justice.
Hindus of Kashmir considered Article 370 as the worst legacy of colonial period and a subversive space to allow imperialist interference. Our participation in large numbers and our contribution towards the Praja Parishad Movement and then in the making of Bhartiya Jan Sangh is quite well known.
Hence when in August, 2019 under your stewardship Article 370 was neutered and Article 35-A removed along with the reorganisation of Jammu and Kashmir, PANUN KASHMIR hailed it as a decolonizing act and a decisive blow to the imperialist manoeuvres.
We the Hindus of Kashmir expected the Government of India to describe this epochal event in these many words and in the same spirit rather than as a mere act of providing better developmental initiatives to the people of Jammu and Kashmir. And in fact, the decision of the Government of India to remain ambiguously silent on the dangerous implications of Article 370 viz. a viz. principles of equality, pluralism, secularism and nation-building kept us baffled.
In fact, the Government of India has been under attack by the votaries of Article 370, within and outside India, by describing the decision of neutering of Article 370 as an attack on democracy and secularism and as the ushering in of an era of religious facism. This ambiguity has kept alive such a tirade alive. And how can the Government of India think that such a political restraint of not telling the real reasons for doing away with Article 370 would serve the national interests and help the process of nation-building?
We believe that a perverted strategic vision has been guiding the Government of India right since the accession of the State of Jammu and Kashmir with the Union of India in 1947. This vision has internalised an approach of empowering, tolerating and even protecting tyranny of Muslim communalism in Jammu and Kashmir. In this vision, while tyranny of majority is to be discouraged and dismantled in rest of India the same tyranny of majority is to be embraced and encouraged in Jammu and Kashmir as an act of secularism and pluralism.
GENOCIDE
This faulty vision of the state (discussed above) has transformed Government of India into a prime force of the Denial of Hindu Genocide in Jammu and Kashmir.
It appears that the Government of India fears that by formally accepting the crime of genocide committed against Hindus of Kashmir might further alienate Muslims of Kashmir and obstruct political rapprochement with them. And rapproachment with the perpetrator being a strategic necessity, Denial of Hindu Genocide in Kashmir is accorded the importance of a national security measure.
GENOCIDE CONTINUES
Honoourable Prime Minster Sir, we hope that you are aware that two successful religious cleansing campaigns have been launched in Kashmir during the BJP rule.
Both the cycles of religious cleansing succeeded in forcing the paltry number of a few thousand Hindus living in Kashmir to run away. And isn’t it a fact that both the Central Government in New Delhi and the government in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir coerced these helpless victims to return by threatening to stop the salaries of the employee class.
To be continued
