The situation in Kashmir valley is though grim enough to attract the immediate attention of the incumbent central government, but the governor’s administration is intensifying the four year old failed experiments of law enforcement to restore calm in Kashmir valley the time when the state is under the presidential rule. Unfortunately the central government solely banking upon its four year old muscular policy does not bother to even hear those advising it to pursue a humanistic approach needed to restore peace in Kashmir valley. Handholding of youth requires a humanistic approach but not guns and lathis used to control violent protests in Kashmir for the last four years. The people protesting near the encounter sites have sympathy for the youth who have joined militant ranks and they are hardly bothered about their participation in upcoming Lok Sabha and assembly elections in the state. In Jammu the winter capital of the state police and paramilitaries did not use force disproportionately to stop unruly mobs from torching the vehicles of Kashmir and attacked the government owned residential flats allotted to Kashmir government employees in different parts of Jammu city.
Sadly the incumbent governor’s administration is not tending to abandon policy of force to win over the confidence of youth. The Governor Satya Pal Malik has to make sure that army and paramilitaries and police restrain themselves from firing on protesters in the aftermath of the killing of militants near the gunfight sites even in the extremely difficult situation.
Similarly massive violent protests were witnessed in Haryana state almost two years back when a fake hindu spiritualist Ram Rahim Khan was arrested but the Haryana government did not tend to use the arm twisting methods to restore normalcy in the state. Excessive use of force aggravates the situation and under all circumstances normalcy can’t be restored in the aftermath of attacks by violent crowds unless and until the government does not try to get to the bottom of the crisis of public anger. Humanistic approach but not the disproportionate use of force is key to resolution of all kinds of conflicts and same hold good for the continuing unrest in Kashmir. Since the people of Kashmir are already facing a hostile environment, the administrative and political wisdom does not demand that dissenting political voices are curbed and rather silenced the way government has put ban on Jammat-e-Islamic a socio political and religious organization and detained its hundreds of workers across Kashmir. It is the constitutional, institutional and administrative responsibility of the government to deal with the current crisis in Kashmir with utmost restraint and a humanistic approach the corner stone of which should be unconditional dialogue. Sadly the incumbent governor’s administration is not tending to abandon policy of force to win over the confidence of youth. The Governor Satya Pal Malik has to make sure that army and paramilitaries and police restrain themselves from firing on protesters in the aftermath of the killing of militants near the gunfight sites even in the extremely difficult situation.
