Friday, August 15, 2008

PM again sermonises on J&K instead of taking action

On the 61st Independence Day of India, i was watching the TV and listening to the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh sermonising on the negatives of divisive politics. How India could be divided if such kind of politics is not stopped and how Indian strategic interests will be hurt if the agitation in Jammu and Kashmir continues.

He told the nation as to how the great Muslim community of Kashmir had taken care of Amarnath Yatra for last so many years-may be 150 years. How kind and benevolent have been the Kashmiri muslim and his brand of Kashmiriat and Sufiana Islam, which has always upheld human values.

However, someone needs to tell Dr Manmohan Singh some hard facts. Kashmir was under the rule of Hindu Dogra Rajas, who ruled the state since 1846 and were able and strong administrators. How could muslims stop a Yatra and oppose it under Dogra rulers, who were strong and able and ruled the state with vigour.

Secondly, Kashmir is a tourism based region, where the Hindu yatra was a sources of income for the many families of valley, which is predominantly muslim. No Kashmiri did any favour to Hindu Yatris for free or without charging him money.
The Yatra is a business for kashmiris as well as traders of Jammu also benefitted, so it is no point saying that Kashmiris did not oppose the yatra. During the last 20 years of insurgency, it is amarnath yatra, which has sustained the tourism sector in valley.
Hindu pilgrims from across the country have pumped in millions of rupees for the tourism sector to sustain in valley.
As far as secular fabric of the country is concerned, the PM should ask the Kashmiri pandits forced out of valley as to what they feel. How muslim fundamentalists of Kashmir valley killed their leaders and froze them in fear, so that they leave the valley.
The Prime Minister, his party and his governor in J&K have tried to brand the agitation as communal, with the active help of fake secularists and the national media.
Appealing for peace and sermonizing will not solve any problem. Give Kashmiris their freedom and Jammu its due share, we want nothing else.

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