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Jammu & Kashmir State Needs to be Trifurcated |
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by Dr. Subhash Kapila |
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Jammu & Kashmir State today is in a total political mess where a handful of Kashmiri separatists confined to Kashmir Valley, holding allegiance to Pakistan, openly and fearlessly preach sedition against the Indian Republic of which this State is an integral part. No such sedition is visible in the major regions of Jammu and Ladakh Regions which are much larger in size than the Kashmir Valley and equally strategically placed. In fact there have been constant demands from the people of Jammu Region and Ladakh Region that they are made independent States or Union Territories on grounds of discrimination exercised by successive Chief Ministers who incidentally have been from the small Kashmir Valley, with exception of Glulam Nabi Azad.
Violence against our security forces is a common occurrence in the Kashmir Valley as are suicide bombings generated by Pakistan Army’s proxy war. The ethnic cleansing of the Hindu Pundits population from the Kashmir Valley not too long ago is a blot on the Indian secular fabric of the States. In both cases the Indian Governments were hapless spectators and were mollycoddling the Kashmir Valley politicians for reasons better known to them.
The violence has spread to the entire Jammu region in the wake of reported attacks and arson against the minority (Hindus) population of Kishtwar after Eid prayers on August 9, 2013 again highlights the failure of the Congress-National Conference Coalition to maintain communal harmony in this strategic border State. The Chief Minister strongly and actively advocates the withdrawal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act and yet then falls back on the Indian Army to restore law and order as is presently taking place. |
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