Er P L Khushu
An unfortunate sad statement by a notable political leader of a political party of Kashmir, that Volcano is building in J&K, just because Pakistan won a cricket match against India. He is on record to have said that celebrating Pak win by some medico youths of Kashmir was to provoke BJP. His ill-advised comments seem to be full of political hate, along with ratification of such anti India utterances of these youths of Kashmir by him. He says that a volcano has been building up in Jammu and Kashmir after the abrogation of Article 370 and expressed fears over what shape it would take when it erupts. A simile of wonder dreams and illusory perceptions of getting the governening power of Jammu & Kashmir back as usual as a dynasty heritage. Where is the volcano and what for? If at all there is one, it is an imaginary creation of Gupkar, which will erupt and may burst at Gupkar itself. He says that celebrations in the Valley over Pakistan’s win against India in the T-20 cricket world cup while Home Minister Amit Shah was visiting were meant to provoke the BJP, which had taken away Jammu and Kashmir’s special status. Does he want to convey that it was a cricket match between Pakistan and BJP, over the nullification of articles 370 and abrogation of 35A. This political leader is a member of the Indian parliament and he should know that the abrogation of the articles 370 and 35A is an outcome of approval and passing of the relevant bills about 370 and 35A as per the majestic decisions’ of the parliament of India, with absolute majority. How can he help the situation when the majority of members in the Indian population are from BJP, who received a majority mandate to rule the country for another term as well and likely to bring BJP back for the third term as well. So this abrogation of the articles 370 and 35A is an outcome of the majority decision of the Indian Parliament. It has not been done by the electorate of India for fun and merriment. It shows that the people of India wanted full integration of Jammu & Kashmir with India. Such decisions of the majority people of India bears testimony to the fact that the dynastic rules in the country and in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, for the last more than fifty years were sought to be put to an end, when such governances were based on sectarian and pseudo secular considerations apart from being loaded with alleged acts of corruption and anti poor policies.
This political leader further says, ‘They (those who celebrated the win) don’t have anything to do with them (Pakistanis). It was done to provoke the BJP. They were children and young boys and this should serve as an eye-opener for the BJP.’ This, he has said, at a public meeting in Surankote in Poonch district. What a tearful and disgusting prophecy? It does not suit the mouth of such a prominent leader to make and utter such like comparisons, to suit his compulsions of present political status, when he has lost his dynastic ruler ship over Jammu and Kashmir, due to the abrogation of Article 370 and 35A and is using events like the cricket match out comes between India and Pakistan by exploiting these young medico students. Rather than asking these young students to attend to their studies more than anything else, this political leader is encouraging and inciting these young students and others who have celebrated the victory of Pakistan in Kashmir by raising anti-India slogans, to adopt a path of hate and white collar terror against India in Kashmir. This can be taken as an alleged act of abetment in fanning hate and acts of terror in Kashmir, particularly among its budding youth, resulting in unfortunate killings of innocent people in Kashmir mostly non Muslims. He should live above cricket and show statesmanship of a qualified and an experienced politician and try to avoid such petty squabbles which is certainly going to diminish his image further when some of his recent sympathetic utterances about Pakistan have already diminished his political stature in the eyes of Indian public. There is nothing new about the celebrations of the victory of Pakistan in cricket against India in Kashmir. It has happened in the past too, when Congress government in the shape of UPA, was ruling the country. It has even happened when the dynasty based political parties were ruling the erstwhile state of Jammu & Kashmir. Unfortunately during those times the houses of Kashmiri Pandits would become the targets of stone pelting by the so called fans of Pakistan, without any restrictions and admonitions from the ruling clan who are now beating their breasts for taking lawful actions against the persons who have rebuked India on the soil of India at this event of the outcome of the recent cricket match between India and Pakistan. BJP was nowhere in picture then.
He says that the BJP claims a new phase has started and terrorism has finished but the situation is otherwise. He said Shah was the one who announced the state’s special status under Article 370 being revoked and also witnessed the celebrations after the Pakistan’s cricket win on Sunday. Yes it is true. Terrorism is at its closing end in Kashmir unless otherwise provoked and encouraged by the white collar politicians of Kashmir for their personal gains. The Home Minister of India spent four days and three nights with the people of Kashmir with normal ease, which shows that the common and the innocent people of Kashmir are tired and upset now due to this terrorism, which has ruined Kashmir almost to its extinction. To link the rejoicing of the recent cricket match outcome of India and Pakistan by certain students and may be some others as well is almost putting the cart before the horse. It has been a usual affair in Kashmir on such occasions the seeds of which have been sown by the pseudo secular politicians of Kashmir, with dynastic bases since 1947. He has been saying that a volcano is building up even as they think they have silenced the people. “This volcano will erupt one day and God knows what will be its shape and size”. Let this political leader of a major regional political party of Kashmir know that the people have not been silenced, but lured to forget the instigation of the separatist’s elements in Kashmir, including those of the pseudo secular political leaders of Kashmir, and think and plan for the proper and prosperous development of Jammu and Kashmir. Home minister has had interactions with so many sections of the Kashmiri people, who even met the family members of the slain police officer who was disdainfully shot dead by the terrorist without any reason or rhyme. Did this political leader of a major political party of Kashmir or the other senior leaders of his political party bother to meet the family members of the police officer, who was shot dead clandestinely by the terrorists. What was the barrier? Can such leaders explain it before speaking for the Muslims of Kashmir? These recent utterances by this political leader have come forth at a public meeting in Surankote in Poonch district. This political leader of Kashmir who is a member of the Indian Parliament should have avoided to speak in such a language at these spots, as mass causalities of the security forces have occurred in Poonch sector due to the unabated infiltration of the terror groups sent by the ISI of Pakistan in this region, when the pruning and the searching of the adjacent forest areas by the Indian security forces is still going on in the Poonch forests, and its adjacent locations. As a true Indian and a Parliamentarian he should have avoided it. It can be construed otherwise. Rather than advocating and lecturing the people in such remote areas, can they do so in places on prominent locations of Kashmir, like Lal Chowk, Khanyar, Idd Gah, Batmallo, Baramullah, Anantmag and the like, which was the practice with the tall and the cherished political leaders of Kashmir like Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, Bakhshi Gulam Mohammad, Mirza Mohd Afzal Beg, G M Sadiq, Mir Qasim, Shaym Lal Saraf, etc. Will any one among the masses come to listen to them in Kashmir or proper Jammu? Do they have the courage to arrange any such like gathering at such prominent locations? They know it that no one is with them except a handful of sycophants with whose votes of just six to seven percent they win the elections and claim as the leaders of the Kashmiri people. Their reared and groomed political stalwarts from Jammu are now abandoning such political parties, after feeling that such political parties and persons have betrayed the people of Jammu and exploited their conspicuous silence for their personal benefits to remain in power permanently. Jammu base of such political leaders is equally slipping along with their political parties.
This political leader is reported to have said that the hostility is the main reason to spread hatred and divide people on the name of Hindus and Muslims. He should know that the hostility with Pakistan is quite apparent when Pakistan is the mother of the Pan Islamic terror hubs, when these terrorists cross over to Kashmir for mass killings of the minorities in particular and other peace loving Kashmiri Muslim in general. Is it a frank and a sincere admission of this leader that Kashmiri Pandits were killed, looted and then made to flee away from Kashmir to save their lives and honor due to the wedge created between the Hindus and the Muslims of Kashmir on this anomaly of animosity with Pakistan. It apparently shows that such political leaders were privy to the mass exodus and genocide of Kashmiri Pundits on this anomaly of animosity with Pakistan. Where were their secular credentials then about which they are shedding crocodile tears now for Kashmiri Pandits. A dictum has been issued now by one of such leaders, that the situation is not conducive for the safe return of Kashmiri Pandits to valley. Do they know it in advance, thus privy to it? It sounds like a good warning to Kashmiri Pandits not to try to come back to their original locations of Kashmir. The government of the day should take a serious note of all such irrelevant statements of these leaders, when it becomes a nascent cause of adding to the devastating dimensions of the results of the terror acts of Pakistan in Kashmir. It may mean even to invoke the appropriate law for the stoppage of such utterances by such political leaders.
(The author is a Chartered Consultant Civil Engineer, passionately attached and devoted to his motherland-Jammu & Kashmir).