It is time that I must get down to write and express my views. So many things have happened since I last wrote on my blog. However, the most serious development among them is the Kashmir issue. It is time for the Union government to take a tough stand against separatists and their sympathizers. The situation due to the Indian government’s inaction is getting out of hand in Kashmir. It is making me angry. The same government was responsible for partition of India, the violent phase in Punjab, taking Kashmir issue to the United Nation and now it could be responsible for yet another partition Look at the way it has kept quite on J&K Chief Minister’s outburst in the assembly where he almost but turned into a yet another separatist by talking their language when he said that the erstwhile ruler of J&K Maharaja Hari Singh has accepted accession and not merger. This is just a clever use of words by a man, whom I used to admire most, is just last ditched efforts to save his political career. And my worst suspicion is, and I hope it is my assumption only, that he showed his real face by making such statement. I don’t think he is so naïve as to make such statement just off the cuff without any intent behind it. He may not be aware that India had not accepted the British government’s Cabinet Mission Plan which included a condition that if those princely states signing a document of accession with Indian Union may secede in future he so desired to. When Sardar Patel went about the task of integration of former princely states into Indian Union, the Instrument of Accession did not include that condition and secession was thus out of question after signing that document. So in effect, when Raja Hari Singh signed the document of accession, it was as good as permanent merger. Mr. Omar Abdullah will do well to keep that in his mind.
Another thing for his knowledge and for those human right activists should know is that Mr. Omar Abdullah’s grandfather had offered to pass a resolution in J&K assembly way back in 1953 to the effect that J&K is an integral part of India. But our prime minister then Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru stopped him from doing this fearing it would embarrass India in the UN. It may be well-intended and a decision based on emotion but that decision cost India dearly over the next few decades. It was a blunder then and yet again the same government is the cause of another blunder. It is tolerating the voices of secession including that of Omar Abdullah. Only difference is that this time over it is not the emotional one but based on hunger to cling on to power. National interest thrown out of window! How can it tolerate people like Sayed Gilani and Arundhati Roy openly advocating freedom for Kashmir in the national capital? Democracy is not about giving freedom to the act of open treason. And media too is to be blamed for giving platform to people such as Gautam Navlakha, Arundhati Roy, Sayed Gilani, and their ilk. In any other country, people stalking the flame of secession would have been harshly dealt with, and media would have completely ignored them. It is only in India, people who talk treason are regarded as intellectuals and savior of human rights! And in spite of such extreme tolerance, Arundhati Roy describes India’ democracy as a fake one!
Dr. Manmohan Singh, being prime minister is not only about being calm and composed and temperate persona. Those are excellent attributes but if there has to be a leader behind that persona who acts swiftly and resolutely, Ruling India is not just about GDP growth and economics, it is much more and beyond. I had written before “Wake up before it is too late.” Unfortunately, this Congress-led government has still not woken up and we will yet again pay heavy price for that. Are your prepared for that? I am not. If you not, let be known once and for all that Kashmir is integral part of India and beyond certain autonomy issues within the Indian Constitution, anything else is non-negotiable. Shun and incarcerate people who preach treason (by talking about freedom or secession).
It is not violation of rights. It is protecting the rights of other billion Indians!
Kashmir is India. Only dispute is part of Kashmir occupied by Pakistan. I hope Congress will put its act together and act beyond their selfish interest.
Another thing for his knowledge and for those human right activists should know is that Mr. Omar Abdullah’s grandfather had offered to pass a resolution in J&K assembly way back in 1953 to the effect that J&K is an integral part of India. But our prime minister then Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru stopped him from doing this fearing it would embarrass India in the UN. It may be well-intended and a decision based on emotion but that decision cost India dearly over the next few decades. It was a blunder then and yet again the same government is the cause of another blunder. It is tolerating the voices of secession including that of Omar Abdullah. Only difference is that this time over it is not the emotional one but based on hunger to cling on to power. National interest thrown out of window! How can it tolerate people like Sayed Gilani and Arundhati Roy openly advocating freedom for Kashmir in the national capital? Democracy is not about giving freedom to the act of open treason. And media too is to be blamed for giving platform to people such as Gautam Navlakha, Arundhati Roy, Sayed Gilani, and their ilk. In any other country, people stalking the flame of secession would have been harshly dealt with, and media would have completely ignored them. It is only in India, people who talk treason are regarded as intellectuals and savior of human rights! And in spite of such extreme tolerance, Arundhati Roy describes India’ democracy as a fake one!
Dr. Manmohan Singh, being prime minister is not only about being calm and composed and temperate persona. Those are excellent attributes but if there has to be a leader behind that persona who acts swiftly and resolutely, Ruling India is not just about GDP growth and economics, it is much more and beyond. I had written before “Wake up before it is too late.” Unfortunately, this Congress-led government has still not woken up and we will yet again pay heavy price for that. Are your prepared for that? I am not. If you not, let be known once and for all that Kashmir is integral part of India and beyond certain autonomy issues within the Indian Constitution, anything else is non-negotiable. Shun and incarcerate people who preach treason (by talking about freedom or secession).
It is not violation of rights. It is protecting the rights of other billion Indians!
Kashmir is India. Only dispute is part of Kashmir occupied by Pakistan. I hope Congress will put its act together and act beyond their selfish interest.
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