Er P L Khushu
The dynastic proxy rulers of Kashmir during the past decades, with their sinister designs of vote bank politics are the root cause of terrorism in Kashmir. They are still bent upon to disturb and vitiate the peaceful atmosphere in Kashmir for their dirty political ends. Jammu and Kashmir is now almost recovering from the jolts of the vagaries of time created by the dynastic rulers for their deep interest to hold the power chair of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, by any means. Their vitiated utterances and intemperate remarks about the vital issues concerning the development and the overall prosperity of Jammu and Kashmir, are deliberate and antinational in its legal character and form and such leaders need to be booked as per the law of the land for vitiating the peaceful atmosphere and communal harmony in this union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. It may at times amount to alleged acts of sedition too. The law of the land shall have to decide it, as now enough is enough. A recent comment by one of such dynasty based leader about the UK having an Indian origin prime minister, when it was said that it is a proud moment that UK will have its first Indian origin PM. Further said, “While all of India rightly celebrates, it would serve us well to remember that while UK has accepted an ethnic minority member as its PM, we are still shackled by divisive & discriminatory laws like NRC & CAA”. How many Kashmiri Pandits as minority community members, did this leader induct during the rule of that political party in their ministerial cabinet? Let such a leader of dynasty base, feel shy to know about a remark made by this leader on the floor of Jammu & Kashmir Legislative assembly in July 2016, about KPs which states, “Kashmiri Pandits cannot return to their original homes in the current atmosphere. This political leader likened their homecoming to ‘throwing them to pigeons’. Where is the code of clean ethnicity in this political leader now? Is not it a glaring discriminatory attitude adopted by the same leader against a section of Kashmiri’s, the Pandits of Kashmir, who were thrown out of Kashmir through the medium of Islamic terror, as a ploy of cleansing of Kashmir from KPs for fanning full Islam in Kashmir with passive support of such political leaders to the terrorists, for their vote bank politics? It is true with all the dynasty based political leaders of Kashmir, who have mostly grown out of heritance which is from father to the progeny and the like. They always express a passive soft corner for the ‘Burhan-Wani’, ‘Geelani’, the ‘Hurriyat’ and the like, apart from advocating openly for Pakistan, on the soil of Kashmir, while living on the Indian soil the Jammu and Kashmir.
Most of these proxy dynasty political leaders have been enjoying the luxurious facilities of government accommodations in posh locations of Srinagar or Jammu, for decades at the cost of the tax payers Money (Blood). Once being asked by the authorities concerned to vacate such accommodations after losing power, these leaders resort to political black mail by using antinational and anti constitutional verbose. Crores of rupees have been spent on most of such luxurious government accommodations of these dynasty based political leaders from the state exchequer, from time to time, ever since the emergence of militancy in Jammu and Kashmir in the name of providing security to them. During this very time of militancy in Jammu and Kashmir, the displaced Kashmiri Pandits were made to live in solitary migrant relief camps in sub human conditions at various placed in Jammu, for years where they were bitten by snakes and contacted various communicable disease when some of these KP’s died in such camps unwept and unheard. Where was the potent ethnicity of this proxy political leader for this minuscule population of Kashmir? This proxy political leader must first practice and then preach. Charity begins at home, when such like political leader have taken all the charities of the government to their private homes at the cost of the common taxpayer’s money of Jammu and Kashmir.
From Maulana Azad to Dr Manmohan Singh and Dr Zakir Hussain to the present President of India Droupadi Murmu, are the examples, when it has always been the aim of the governments of the time to give equal opportunities to the minority status sections of the Indian society, for the apex posts of governance of the country. Have such proxy political leaders applied this norm to their minorities in which KPs were the first targets? Same was the position with the people of Jammu who were discriminated always by the proxy rulers from Kashmir in all the developmental fields, job opportunities, boost in educational facilities and careers and even in giving Jammu due representation in the state assembly and state ministerial cabinets.
What is there to feel shackled about NRC and CAA. What is wrong about these corrective measures taken by the government of the day to rectify the mistakes of the past governments who have ruled the nation on cast and the religion bases for its vote bank politics. The Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 was passed by the Parliament of India on 11 December 2019. It amended the Citizenship Act, 1955 by providing a pathway to Indian citizenship for the persecuted religious minorities from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan. They are Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis , Christians who had arrived in India before the end of December 2014. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which leads the Indian government, had promised in previous election manifestos to offer Indian citizenship to members of persecuted religious minorities who had migrated from neighboring countries. Under the 2019 amendment, migrants who had entered India by 31 December 2014, and had suffered “religious persecution or fear of religious persecution” in their country of origin, were made eligible for citizenship. The amendment also relaxed the residence requirement for naturalization of these migrants from twelve years to six. Is it a sin to come to the rescue of such people who were being persecuted as religious minorities in other Islamic countries? Why should there be any heart burning for the same on communal lines for such leaders, who have made their own subjects the KP’s of Kashmir as refugees in their own country.
The National Register of Citizens (NRC) is a register of all Indian citizens whose creation is mandated by the 2003 amendment of the Citizenship Act, 1955. Its purpose is to document all the legal citizens of India so that the illegal immigrants can be identified and deported. It has been implemented for the state of Assam starting in 2013-2014. The Government of India announced plans to implement it for the rest of the country in 2021, when it has not yet been implemented. What is wrong to maintain such a record of the national population of the real Indians and save the country from illegal migrants from the other countries? Yes it pinches their mental set ups as they want illegal migrants like Rohingyas in Jammu and Kashmir particularly Jammu to outnumber the Hindu population with the illegal migrant Muslim population, to garner more Muslim votes illegally.
With a further political bleak opportunism, one of such proxy political leader from Kashmir has recently said that J&K-India relationship is ‘illegitimate’ after abrogation of 370. This leader is further known to have said, that we want the Secular India, which we (J&K) had acceded within 1947 and not today’s Godse Gujrat model of India. It is deplorable to equate the accession of India like this, involving the name of ‘Godse’, the killer of Mahatma Gandhi. Does this proxy leader know that the accession to India took place when Mahatma Gandhi was alive and was very much delighted about India looking after the state of Jammu and Kashmir when Jammu and Kashmir acceded to India? Accession took place on 26th October-1947 and Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated on: 30 January 1948. Let this remind the history of the accession of Jammu and Kashmir to India, to this political leader. Unfortunate for Kashmir and its people to have such a political leader who lacks political protocol, political etiquette and above all has very little general knowledge. While trying to represent the people of Jammu and Kashmir falsely, in delivering such an irrelevant statement about the accession, clubbing the name of a person who is condemned by one and all in India, this proxy political leader should also know that actually India accepted the accession of Jammu and Kashmir with it, as it was being represented by the noble and the peace loving people of Jammu and Kashmir and not today’s ‘Burhans’, ‘Geelanis’, ‘Huryitis’ etc, of Kashmir, who have been getting hidden support from the dynasty based proxy political leaders, who have ruled Jammu and Kashmir for decades, allegedly with the hidden support of these very people. In fact these ‘Burhans’, ‘Geelanis’, ‘Huryitis’ etc of Kashmir are the actual ‘Godses’ for Jammu and Kashmir and its people as such like people and organizations killed thousands of Kashmiri’s and devastated so many families apart from mass devastation in Jammu and Kashmir. Kashmiri Pandits too suffered at their hands badly and are still suffering and are made to live away from their home land Kashmir, with the proxy support of these dynasty based poetical leaders to these killers, for their vote bank politics, to remain in power perpetually through political and communal black mail.
Repeatedly harping upon the validity of the full accession of Jammu and Kashmir with India, these proxy political leaders have no love lost for the people of Kashmir in this regard. It is just to keep their political pot boiling while exploiting of some of the innocent sections of the people of Kashmir, when the people of Jammu have already identified the biased and sectarian aims of such proxy leaders.
The constitutional mechanism of Article 370 unfolds some interesting stipulations suiting to the dynastic politicians, which would estoppel the application of the laws as made by the parliament to be applied to the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Thus such enacted laws by the parliament could not become applicable to the state of Jammu and Kashmir as constitutional provisions for J&K state straight way. It was to be routed through the state legislature. It looks incredible when even after the application of Article 370 to the state of Jammu and Kashmir, politicians ruling the state never wanted to extend fundamental rights to the people of the state. In Delhi Agreement of 1952, the issue of applicability of fundamental rights to J&K was deferred wittingly and under a proper design of conspiracy. In the view of the peculiar position in which the State was placed, the whole chapter relating to fundamental rights of the Indian Constitution could not be made applicable to the State. The question which was raised was whether the fundamental rights clauses should form a part of the State Constitution or the Constitution of India as applicable to the State. Subsequent there to the fundamental rights were extended through Presidential Order of 1954.
Thus the abrogation of the Article 370 was a dire need of the hour to equate Jammu & Kashmir fully and equally with the rest of India. Articles 370 and 35A were prejudicial to women’s rights and empowerment and discriminated on gender equality. Ultimately that “Inevitable” has happened. Modi Ji through his iron willed “Home-Minister, Sh. Amit Shah steered it through and played the master stroke by scrapping the Article 370 and 35A, thus merging the state of Jammu & Kashmir with rest of India. Great Maharaja Hari Singh’s soul must now rest in peace with this step, as his humiliation at the time of his signing the Instrument of Accession with India, stands rectified and repaid with interest. Miss Interpreted Arrogance of Article 370 was made to get shelved for good. J & K Is now full India. August 5th – 2019, will remain an epoch making date and day in the history of India,
These proxy dynasty political leaders should now read the writing on the wall that they cannot now again bargain or blackmail the power corridors in Delhi for making them the Kings and Queens of Jammu and Kashmir by exploiting the half truths about the accession of J& K with India. Who does not know how elections were rigged in the year 1987 in Jammu and Kashmir, which is the root cause of present radicalization of the youth in Kashmir resulting in acute militancy in Jammu and Kashmir. How were governments formed earlier prior to 1975 that is prior to the signing of the Indira-Sheikh accord, when Sheikh Abdullah took the reins of governance back. That time the elected MLA’s of Kashmir, would be nicknamed as ‘Khaliq-Made’. It means as having been declared elected without contest, by a single designate person, as the election form of the opponent would usually be rejected without any base. It was all due to the exploitation of so called Kashmir Problem by the various political parties of Kashmir, by taking recourse to Article 370, claiming that the accession of Jammu and Kashmir is not full and final for their vote bank politics. It was done to remain in power perpetually. Now after the annulling of the article 370 and 35 A , the habitual dynastic political leaders are again trying to use this very stick by beating their breasts about the annulling of these two articles, thus trying to convey that Kashmiri’s have been deprived of their rights by such an action, which is false and imaginary. It is alleged that they have been silently trying to woo the secessionist elements too at times with their antinational and anti government statements, for their vote bank politics. It makes one to think and prod that are these proxy rulers of the past are the abettors of terror in Kashmir as well? If it is so, then it needs to be checked and such leaders brought under the ambit of law of sedition.
(The author is a Chartered Consultant Civil Engineer, passionately attached and devoted to his motherland Jammu & Kashmir).
