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| Hari Om’s open letter to PM Modi on anti-Jammu, divisive Agenda of Alliance | |
Respected Shri Narendra Modi Ji,
Namaskar!
The people of grossly discriminated against and rigorously excluded from the governance of the State people of Jammu province, the backbone of nation in the strategic State of Jammu and Kashmir, are anxiously looking forward to your benign visit to the state on November 7.
Being a committed soldier of BJP and an ardent admirer and supporter of your able and inspiring leadership, I consider it my fundamental duty to bring to your kind notice what the nationalist people of the state think about the PDP-BJP Agenda of Alliance on the basis of which the People’s Democratic Party and Bharatiya Janata Party formed coalition government in the sensitive State of Jammu and Kashmir last March. They want this Agenda of Alliance to be withdrawn. They also want the BJP to snap all its ties with the PDP, which has been subverting the Indian polity both from within and outside, describing Jammu and Kashmir a “disputed territory”, pitching for Pakistani atrocious claims over this part of the State and has created a dangerous situation in the Valley by allowing separatists to radicalise the Valley and harass the left over hapless minority communities’ members.
The Agenda of Alliance of the ruling PDP-BJP coalition in Jammu and Kashmir, that was made public on March 1, the day when the new State Government was formed, has been under serious scrutiny since months now. On May 21, after the AIIMS Coordination Committee unleashed the movement for the establishment of an All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Jammu, the Agenda of Alliance gathered attention.
What brought the Agenda under sharp focus was the shifting of the proposed AIIMS to the Kashmir valley. Union Minister for Finance Shri Arun Jaitley, while presenting his second annual Budget, on February 28, had announced the setting up of an AIIMS in Jammu. MOs in PMO Shri Jitendra Singh had commended Shri Jaitley’s announcement on the floor of the Lok Sabha itself and said that “AIIMS was always meant for Jammu”.
Some keen watchers of Jammu and Kashmir, who have read and re-read the Agenda of Alliance, have said that it is a “very dangerous document”. Some have dismissed it as “an agenda of subversion”. Few have termed it as “a new charter of bondage for Jammu and another rivet in the chain of Jammu slavery”. Others have termed the Agenda of Alliance as “a document designed to break Jammu region into smithereens”. While some others have described the Agenda of Alliance as a “document of political and ideological capitulation of the BJP as well as the RSS” and, at the same time, opined that “inherent in the Agenda is the abandonment of Kashmiri Hindus to forces of jihad” and “inherent in it is the abandonment of Jammu as a citadel of Indian nation”.
Indeed, there is much in the Agenda which is undesirable. It helps Pakistan and the Hurriyat leaders to promote their secessionist and sectarian agenda. It also helps anti-Jammu forces in Kashmir consolidate their hegemony over Jammu, and destroy the region’s unity and integrity by pitting followers of one religion against others.
The Agenda of Alliance talks about “Chenab Valley region” and “Pir Panjal” region in Jammu province and treats them separately. It says the coalition government will “restructure and strengthen the Chenab Valley Power Projects Limited as a holding company for all hydro power projects in the state”, “earmark per cent of revenues from hydro power for the development of the Chenab region” and “set up a new specialised high tech IT park and Bio tech parks in Jammu, and Pir Panchal”. There exist no such regions in Jammu province as Chenab Valley region and Pir Panjal region.
The Agenda of Alliance, actually, seeks to undermine Jammu province as a region, break its territorial composition, render it formally as a mere appendage of Kashmir and help the protagonists of Greater Kashmir, Dixon Plan and Kathwari Formula to achieve what they failed to achieve during all these years of the state’s accession to India.
The Agenda of Alliance not only maintains the existing political-constitutional status of Jammu and Kashmir, but also effectively says that the State is disputed territory and that its political future is yet to be decided. It recommends a process that seeks to involve Hurriyat leaders and also considers Pakistan as a stakeholder in Jammu & Kashmir.
“While recognising the different positions and appreciating the perception, the BJP and the PDP have on the constitutional status of Jammu and Kashmir, considering the political and legislative realities, the present position will be maintained on all the constitutional provisions pertaining to Jammu & Kashmir, including the special status in the Constitution”, the Agenda of Alliance says.
This has never been our stand. Our stand always was, and continues to be, that “Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India” and “Article 370 under the state enjoys a separate status within the Union must be thrown out lock, stock and barrel and Jammu and Kashmir be brought at par with other States of the Union”. The massive mandate that the people of Jammu and Ladakh gave to the BJP in the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in 2014 was a mandate for the BJP’s ideology, the state’s complete integration into India and empowerment of these two marginalised regions. The memory of what your goodself said in Jammu during the historic election rallies in Jammu and Hiranagar about the State, the irresponsible NC, PDP and Congress leadership and Article 370 still lingers in the minds of the people.
The Agenda of Alliance says, “The earlier NDA Government led by Atal Bihari Vajpayee had initiated a dialogue process with all political groups, including the Hurriyat conference, in the spirit of insaaniyat, Kashmiriyat aur jamhooriyat. Following the same principles, the coalition Government will facilitate and help initiate a sustained and meaningful dialogue with all internal stakeholders, which will include all political groups irrespective of their ideological views and pre-dilections. This dialogue will seek to build a broad-based consensus on resolution of all outstanding issues of Jammu and Kashmir”.
The Agenda of alliance is, in fact, a document of commitment to implement the Musharraf Plan from within. Its implementation would mean demilitarisation, rendering borders porous, India-Pakistan joint-control over Jammu and Kashmir and self-governance. How could India allow Pakistan to share sovereignty with it in Jammu and Kashmir?
The Agenda of Alliance also talks about de-militarisation of the State and withdrawal of all special laws, including the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act. Additionally, it also says that “all lands, other than those given to the security forces on the basis of lease, licenses and acquisition under the provision of the land acquisition Act, shall be returned to the rightful legal owners”.
The critics of the Agenda of Alliance also stand vindicated when they describe it as “a new charter of bondage for Jammu and another rivet in the chain of Jammu slavery”. The reason is that there is absolutely nothing in the Agenda for the discriminated people of the Jammu region. It’s no wonder that the aggrieved people of Jammu province have been describing the Agenda of Alliance as agenda of Kashmir, by Kashmir and for Kashmir.
The Agenda talks of the establishment of a delimitation commission, but it says that it could happen only after the 2031 census and that, too, if the Government of the time is willing to withdraw the February 2002 amendment that had banned delimitation of Assembly constituencies to scuttle the age-old demand in Jammu for proper representation in the Assembly. Sadly, the BJP was also a party to that anti-Jammu and anti-constitutional amendment. All the eight BJP MLAs had supported the amendment that was moved by the NC to perpetuate the Kashmiri domination and hegemony over the State.
The Assembly discusses and decides questions of supreme importance for the well-being and happiness of the people of the State. The plight and political status of the people of Jammu region will not change unless they get equal, if not more, representation in the State Assembly.
The Agenda of Alliance has also not done justice to the refugees from Pakistan, who have been leading a miserable life in different parts of Jammu province since the country’s communal partition and creation of Pakistan. It says the PDP-BJP coalition government will “take measures for sustenance and livelihood of the West Pakistan refugees”. They have taken this as an affront to their self-respect and reiterated again and again their stand that they shall not accept anything short of full citizenship rights which are available to all others in Jammu and Kashmir as Indian nationals.
These are only a few of several such examples which serve to prove the critics of the Agenda of Alliance right.
The nationalist people of Jammu province and other parts of the State will feel highly obliged if your goodself could very kindly appreciate the well-considered views of the concerned citizens of the State on the Agenda of Alliance and announce either at Srinagar or Ramban that the Agenda of Alliance stood withdrawn and the BJP severed ties with the PDP to play the role of an effective opposition in the State to controvert the pernicious influence of the fake mainstream Kashmiri leaders as well as Kashmiri separatists. The nation shall feel grateful to your goodself for your noble acts. Your benign intervention will go a long way in allaying the fears of the people of Jammu province, Ladakh region and all the friends and well-wishers of India. Even otherwise, withdrawal of the Agenda of Alliance and support to the PDP is a national requirement, as they have hurt both the BJP and the nation.
With respectful regards,
I am sincerely yours,
Prof Hari Om
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