Kashmir vs Jammu

This is the time we keep our cool

It is a great show of unity when people come on roads to protest for their rights and in our part of the world, its even greater for genuinely rising against the land transfer, though it was painful to see innocent lives being lost but it conveyed the message that people’s power is the ultimate. No one, from the separatists to the mainstream could take the credit because it was the people who had wrested the initiative though every outfit was trying to find a little space for itself. It is ironical bordering absurdity that PDP should have been creating a hullabaloo for a situation that it created in the first place. It was like the accused pointing a finger towards the wronged and screaming “Ha Khudaya, Wa Khudaya”. Till date they have not answered a simple question, if the allotment was wrong, if creating the SASB was against the interests of the State, why didn’t PDP led Government dissolve the Board or reject the allotment when the file was brought to him”? As rightly said, “The accused was trying to attain the status of a Victim”. It is so infuriating when you get to read communal and biased stories written by people who don’t even have the remotest idea of the issue, they write as an expert, and then give the worst possible solution which will only aggravate the situation, read the contents of one such write up by a professor, that I gathered from the internet, “Bold policy options will have to be opted for. As such, first, it is necessary that subversive and anti-national elements like Hurriyat, and NC are banned permanently. Secondly, Governor´s rule must be immediately imposed in J&K for bringing about not only instantaneous normalcy but also longer lasting political stability, justice, peace and prosperity on a wider plain for the sake of the common people in particular. Thirdly, Governor´s rule must continue at least for next ten years in order to deal with six decades old saboteurs and anti-national elements in the State. Fourthly, an impartial judicial or gubernatorial inquiry commission must be established and set up to submit its report to the President of India on all above mentioned contexts and clandestine anti-national activities and happenings in the J&K State during the last sixty years. This, what he says can be a solution, Huh? Political bankruptcy personified! The very basis that has been the hallmark of our pride-the tolerance- has become a casualty and what we resisted in 1947 by not allowing the communal frenzy enter our polity seems to be starkly looking into our eyes. It will need a towering leader like Sheri Kashmir to inject an antidote to the virus that we see spreading in two regions. The harmony we had nurtured with our blood seems to have been sacrificed at the altar of petty political considerations. The PDP’s scheming leaders shall have to be answerable for the treason they have committed against the State, the Jammuites and the people of the Valley. If Kashmir kept aloft the banner of secularism in 1947 by protecting the minorities, Jammu did exactly the same after 1989 when a sizeable number of people had to leave behind their homes and hearth and take refuge in Jammu. If the communal frenzy has surfaced in two regions because of the dirty machinations of the coalition partners and their electoral politics both should be decimated in the forthcoming elections so that they don’t play games with people’s solidarity, their aspirations and their future. It is not difficult to identify the hidden handor the wolves in sheep-skin who have taken a sadistic pleasure in devouring our young. How would you explain this dichotomy! Kashmir shiva-ism propagating universal brotherhood and some shiva bakhts of Jammu trying to break the state in the name of lord shiva. We are once again on the cross roads of history and we need a leader who has the courage of conviction and who is genuinely interested to extricate the State from a point of disintegration. While the world is shrinking and boundaries are becoming irrelevant worldwide, it does not serve the larger interests of either Jammu or Kashmir to sacrifice their age old harmony just because some politicians see a possibility of securing his personal interests. My generation will not forgive the state leaders of whatever hue if they do not leave behind their differences and try to mend the chord that has reached a breaking point. They owe it to posterity and the new generation that wants to live in peace and harmony.

Please do it before it is too late!

This write up of mine appeared first in the Daily Greater Kashmir .