When the Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh was trying to pacify the dissenting voices in Kashmir, the people of disintegrating tendencies in Jammu were renewing their impracticable demand for division of the state or its reorganization of the state along religious and regional lines. Interestingly a sacrilegious act was performed in Jammu city on the first day of the four day visit of Home Minister Rajnath Singh just to vitiate the peaceful atmosphere in Jammu and divert the attention of Home Minister Rajnath Singh from the challenges thrown up by more than one year long unrest in Kashmir valley and parts of Chenab valley and Pir Panchal area in Jammu division. Knowing that the situation in Kashmir valley is still so challenging that no PDP minister or MLA or MP could muster courage to move out to his constituency without a foolproof security cover. No doubt that situation has comparatively improved in Kashmir but the challenges thrown up by the continuing crackdowns and killings of civilian in encounters between the government forces and the militants are in way no different than the last year. Instead of trying to heal the wounds of the unrest victims the Mehbooba led PDP-BJP coalition government has given a license to police, army and paramilitaries to continue crackdowns in the areas where the government claims about the hiding of militants in residential houses are proved wrong. Though experiences of yesteryears show that not the excessive militarization but the phased withdrawal of army and paramilitaries has reduced the levels of alienation between the people and the government and restored normalcy but the incumbent central government is not drawing any lessons from the results shown by extra militarization and with withdrawals of the excessive deployments from the populate areas of the state. The disintegrating voices in Jammu not only resent the withdrawals of the deployments from the populated areas but also demand withdrawal of special legislations granted under article 370 of the Indian constitution to the people of the state.
The situation in Kashmir even today is explosive and demands immediate intervention of the Prime Minister for the purposes of the resolution of conflicts through dialogue, reconciliation and confidence building measures (CBMs).
Unfortunately the incumbent central government has allowed people of disintegrating tendencies in Jammu region to lay legal traps in the supreme court of the country on article 35 A and article 370 the two basic legislations guaranteeing special status of the state. These people of disintegrating tendencies are also raising the demand for unwanted delimitation of the assembly constituencies over the deferment of which has already taken a decision. Instead of defending the petitions filed against the article 35 A and article 370 the incumbent central government is choosing to delay the proceedings of the cases in the supreme court of the country. The people of Kashmir have been hurt more by PDP than BJP. The people of Kashmir have been angry with the PDP for brute surrender of its core political agenda and allowing BJP to work on its core political agenda as the much hyped “agenda of alliance” makes it obligatory on both PDP and BJP to leave contentious issues untouched. While the whole approach of the BJP is pitting the followers of one religion against the followers of another in the only muslim majority state of the country, the PDP’s brute surrender of its core political agenda has turned out to be a curse for the people of Kashmir and Chenab valley and Pir Panchal areas of Jammu division. The situation in Kashmir even today is explosive and demands immediate intervention of the Prime Minister for the purposes of the resolution of conflicts through dialogue, reconciliation and confidence building measures (CBMs).
