Pulling the plug on Mehbooba Government in Kashmir was suppose to come today or tomorrow or day after tomorrow. The two extreme ideologies did try to bring peace to the injured J & K psych. The situation has gone from bad to worse. There seem to be no roads left for the BJP led Central Government. Facing an uphill task of convincing large Indian population, to which BJP had committed during General election campaigning in 2014 and now it finds itself in tough spot on treacherous Kashmir issue. Action on Kashmir, was one of the main reasons for which many, including the writer, had voted for BJP. But at present Kashmir remains as it is, without anything to show on the ground.
BJP, which came to power with a agenda of abrogating the Article 370 and Article 35-A from the Indian Constitution, ending special status to Jammu & Kashmir region, has to give answer to the people of this country as to why they could not do it, even though they had majority power in the parliament. This one issue will be testing BJP and its stalwarts, how and what they have up their sleeves as the Governor N.N. Vohra, takes over the Mehbooba Mufti Govt, who resigned after BJP withdrew support to Mehbooba Govt.
All this is know to you all and its everywhere in the media. What now..... is a bigger question. Kashmir problem is not law and order problem. A small quarrel, turned into international issue, with huge mistakes in hiatorical past.
The problem has not been solved with honest intent as halfhearted attempts were made. Since last few decades it has been a pattern with which the Kashmir has been handled, leading to a boredom and everybody knows, whats next...sort of thing. You first have unrest, then the Governor rule, military actions against terrorists, then again elections, again a coalition Government and then collapse of Government machinery, and again Governor Rule. This pattern is repeated every 5 years or more 1 year here and there.
Since this is getting repeated time over again, vested interests have developed. There are offices of power brokers, pressure groups and all political parties are vulnerable to this. Hurriyat Conference (HC) is one such example. HC is a coordinating body which conglomeration of several smaller separatists group leaders, who have formed one alliance to liberate Kashmir from India. Initially they wanted freedom for Kashmir, from Pakistan and India and form a separate country. But with passage of time and delay in solving Kashmir problem, these small time thugs, have become separatists leaders and previous Central Governments are accused of having fed them with money and other facilities, to keep them quiet.
In the absence of concrete policy and perception, the Govt at Centre, mostly Congress, allowed this ad-hoc situation to develop into a permanent melee leading to creation of vested interest amongst Congress leaders, Hurriyat Conference, Kashmiri separatists. No Governments, whether Congress, National Conference nor P.D.P., seriously tried to solve the real issue behind the Kashmir problem, which is mainly unemployment.
Education rates are though the lowest, has been rising steadily and slowly, leaving educated unemployed. People are mainly employed in tertiary economic activity, which heavily depends upon tourism and hospitality. The absence investment from other parts of India, has left the Central Government with heavy burden of developing and sustaining ever rising demands of the Kashmiri people. People are educated unawares. They are misled into believing something which has affected their own interest.
Article 370 & 35-A has done more harm than the good to average Kashmiri. They have isolated themselves from the Pan India development, India has witnessed in last 2 and half decade. Surprisingly, the political bigwigs of Kashmir are too silent on such issues. There are educated and influential people and academia who can make people understand what is going on in Kashmir what has led to this problem, is not discussed freely. Any talk of Article 370 and 35-A, makes Kashmiris hysterical. They think those who talk of such an abrogation, is their enemy, that's it. They get so excited and blinded by that issue that they just don't want that to even discuss.
Education rates are though the lowest, has been rising steadily and slowly, leaving educated unemployed. People are mainly employed in tertiary economic activity, which heavily depends upon tourism and hospitality. The absence investment from other parts of India, has left the Central Government with heavy burden of developing and sustaining ever rising demands of the Kashmiri people. People are educated unawares. They are misled into believing something which has affected their own interest.
Article 370 & 35-A has done more harm than the good to average Kashmiri. They have isolated themselves from the Pan India development, India has witnessed in last 2 and half decade. Surprisingly, the political bigwigs of Kashmir are too silent on such issues. There are educated and influential people and academia who can make people understand what is going on in Kashmir what has led to this problem, is not discussed freely. Any talk of Article 370 and 35-A, makes Kashmiris hysterical. They think those who talk of such an abrogation, is their enemy, that's it. They get so excited and blinded by that issue that they just don't want that to even discuss.
No Kashmiri, neither the people nor their leaders are sure as to what would happen if the special status to J&K is withdrawn. Only one situation they envisage is a complete anarchy.
A simple thought with logic, as to what they gained from almost 70 years of such special status, doesn't come to their mind, before using their head on Article 370 and 35-A abrogation. Logic has failed. Kashmiris, have allowed HC and it's goons to take over their aspirations.
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