in Kashmir but also in various parts
of India and the world.
Both on Leaky and Sinking Boat
The PDP leadership remained
a mute spectator to all these crimes
against the people or engaged in
some eye washing measures like
ordering enquires, filing the FIRs
and the release of some prisoners.
Mehbooba Mufti also proposed
cease fire during Ramzan, the
dialogue with the stake holders and
also with Pakistan to find a solution
to the Kashmir problem. But it
never ventured to go into the heart
of the problem and never tried to
spell out its view based on the
aspirations and rights of Kashmir
people.
The people of Jammu and
Kashmir are well aware of BJP’s
policy of negating the aspirations
and rights of people. The people
know that BJP openly stood by the
suppressive policy of the Indian
govt. and sought to combine this
policy with the politics of communal
division.
Here is what a senior BJP
leader of Kashmir has said about
the state of BJP and PDP at the
time of break up: “The situation in
the state has become such that
both our core constituencies have
alienated from us. There was no
way the alliance would hold till
2019. We were facing huge back
lash from Jammu and Ladakh, the
areas that voted for us, and the
valley was hitting out against the
PDP. We have an idea that the
PDP would pull out of the govt. by
Sept – October, well before the
February announc ement of
General Elections. By pulling out
first, we can still hope to retrieve
ground.”
True, both were in a leaky and
sinking boat and BJP has shown
the smartness of jumping out of the
boat first. But both refuse to see
the real causes placed them in
such a state at the time of break.
July - 2018
What Next ?
The PDP may try to retrieve its
support base by presenting itself
as a ‘martyr’ which lost the power
because it stood by the Kashmir
people and for the resolution of
Kashmir problem. But it cannot
work. The PDP leadership cannot
convincingly
explain
its
opportunistic alliance with the BJP.
The people will not believe it
because it cannot adopt a policy
in line with the genuine aspirations
and rights of Kashmir people.
BJP’s future course in Kashmir
is clearly spelt out in the following
words of BJP’s leader Ram Madhav.
He said:
“ We have put in place a four–
pronged approach. One is utter
toughness on terrorists. Secondly,
go after the overground operatives
of terrorists via the legal course;
thirdly, to engage with different
sections of the society, fourthly, to
focus on development.” This
approach will continue under
Governor’s rule also.”
He even said: “ When you (we)
are pulling out of the government,
it does not mean we are leaving the
state. The Centre will administer
the state. So it’s the Governor as
the representative of the President
of India who will govern the state.”
This is a method of running
the govt. by back door without
being in power in the state. By
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the last 25 years, the US
imperialism has been at war
continuously, beginning with the
invasion of Iraq in 1991, followed
by military intervention in Haiti,
Sudan, Afghanistan and Iraq and
air strikes on Yugoslavia. The new
millennium saw launching of “war
on terror” and occupation of
Afghanistan in 2001 followed by
the invasion of Iraq in 2003, war
on Libya in 2011 and then raking
up civil war in Syria in 2012.
breaking the govt. the BJP has
freed
itself
from
the
responsibilities. It is free to pursue
the policy of ruthless suppression
against the people in Kashmir
under the cover of fighting
terrorism. This policy will only
aggravate the crisis and widen the
gulf further between the Kashmir
people and the Indian rulers. The
Indian rulers and the BJP leaders
may rest assured that their policy
will only prove to be a monumental
blunder and will boomerang.
The parties in the opposition
in Kashmir can help the Kashmir
people little if they show interest
and enthusiasm in reaping the
electoral gains from the present
political crisis. The people of
Kashmir, who are in a great
difficulty and threatened by the
intensifying onslaught, expect a
clear policy and definite action on
the part of political forces which can
help the Kashmir people to
withstand the onslaught and seek
to find a just and lasting solution to
their problem. The political and
democratic forces in Kashmir as
well as India must realise that a just
and lasting solution to Kashmir
problem can be found only by
ensuring the necessary democratic
and peaceful conditions for the
Kashmir people to express their
views and aspiration and decide
their future.
The astronomical levels of
military spending has been
accompanied by ever greater
concentrations of wealth in the
hands of few corporate and
attacks on living standards of
working people and on their
democratic rights.
The root cause of this war and
poverty is the obsolete and crisis-
ridden imperialist system, which
ought to be destroyed and build
socialist society.
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