Valuable Vally

Monday, August 25, 2008
Valuable Valley
This is just to share my thoughts with the viewers of my blog space on the ongoing controversy over the land transfer in Jammu to Sri Amarnath Shrine Board which turned in to factionist movement in Kashmir and religious frenzy in Jammu, both of antithetical to the constitutional spirit of India.

I feel this whole situation is creation of ruling parties eying on the forthcoming assembly and parliament elections without calculating the risk of opening Pandora’s Box. Much deeper issues involved here are the issues relating to crises of Identity in both Jammu and Kashmir region. Over the last six decades both the major players at Center and in Jammu Kashmir played by wiping this identity issues. Out of my little observation what I found is that when ever there is sufficient space provided to vent the urge in democratic form, the people supported neither separatists nor religious forces which are bound to destroy the cultural fabric of Jammu and Kashmir. As long as the major ruling parties are utilizing this political space allowed to them in allaying the fears and satisfying people's aspirations the so called separatists sidelined from main stream and happened vice versa also. When ever the ruling parties failed to deliver the commitments and honor the sentiments, in the absence of sufficient democratic space to air their feelings people opted to run under the leadership of dividing forces. Particularly after the last 10 years, the parties which came to power in the state failed to deliver as per the expectations. To shield their failures, the ruling parties are habituated to raise such issues of grabbing the eyeballs with out doing much. With such calculations only the PDP+Cong government paved way for this agitation which is now moving out of their hands even. The party which is part of government in the state and partner in Delhi's UPA alliance, PDP is whipping up with the masses and even not felt difficult to walk up to the Muzaffarpur which is nothing but sheer politics !
Suggestions
1. The center immediately should take steps to de-link the emotional issues that grabbed the main issue.
2. Foot down iron heel on those who are whipping up emotion over the common issues.
3. Find a workable solution to the genuine issue.
4. Isolate both the separatists and communalists from the issues and from the masses to create a buffer zone for democratic activity.