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suggestion on division of Jammu and Kashmir
Jammu State Morcha (JSM),
which has been spearheading a movement for trifurcation of the State of Jammu
and Kashmir since 1990 in its own way, the other day submitted a memorandum to
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde and
urged them to look into the grievances of the people of Jammu province and
Ladakh and religious and ethnic minorities, including the internally displaced
Kashmiri Hindus, so that these discriminated against regions and sections
obtain their legitimate due share in the political, economic and social
processes. This was disclosed in Jammu by the JSM president Virender Gupta
while addressing a press conference.
"The JSM strongly
supports the demand of Telangana State and calls upon the Government of India
to consider the other demands seeking creation of new States, including
Jammu," he said, adding that "the people of Jammu region are
neglected lot in all spheres and deprived of their share in the democratic,
administrative, social and economic processes". "Carving out of a new
Jammu State out of the present Jammu and Kashmir is an extremely genuine and
viable demand…Jammu has all the possible infrastructure and economical
viability for having the status of a separate State," he also said.
Gupta said the
trifurcation of the State into Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh States and creation of
a Centrally-administered piece of land in Kashmir for the internally displaced
Kashmiri Hindus alone could end unrest in the State and resolve the so-called
Kashmir issue on a permanent basis. In other words, he not only demanded
trifurcation of the State but also bifurcation of Kashmir - a demand the
internally-displaced Kashmiri Hindus have been putting forth since 1991 saying
they would return to Kashmir only if Kashmir is bifurcated and separate
homeland invested with Union Territory created. The people of Ladakh also have
been demanding Union Territory since decades, saying they, like the people of
Jammu province, cannot have any kind of truck with the Kashmiri leadership
whose divisive demands range from autonomy to self-rule to azadi to Pakistan.
The demand made by the JSM
indicates two things. One is that the people of Jammu province, like those in
Ladakh, are fed up with the Valley domination over them as well as the
discriminatory policies. No one can contest the argument of the JSM because it
is an established fact that the people of this province have never got their
due share in any of the spheres and this fact has been acknowledged by the
various commissions which the State government appointed from time to time to
look into the complaints of the people. Two, the other cause responsible for
the demand of trifurcation in Jammu and Ladakh is the regressive and separatist
of ideology of Kashmiri leadership. It is a fact that while Kashmiri leadership
hates India and seeks a solution to the so-called Kashmir issue outside the
Indian Constitutional framework, the people of Jammu and Ladakh and
internally-displaced Kashmiri Hindus see a solution that not only ends their
night of discontent and despair but also integrates them completely into India.
This contradiction is irreconcilable.
New
Delhi needs to recognize these stark realities in the larger national interest
and trifurcate the State. This demand is neither divisive nor anti-national. It
is a Constitutional demand. Even otherwise, smaller States are
well-administered States. The trifurcation of the State is imperative
considering the fact that such a division of the State will restrict the area
of strife to a small part of Kashmir and enable New Delhi to tackle that area
more effectively. Infact, trifurcation of the State is a historical necessity.
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