Since Rajnath Singh has invited everybody for talks, It should have a ‘Chalo Rajnath Se Milo’ calendar given in modification to United APHC program for people across Kashmir.
The press conference, while not particularly significant as the Home Minister basically repeated what he has said before, did reveal a new side of CM Mehbooba Mufti. An angry side. A non-re-conciliatory side. The way the Mehbooba left the press conference, lost her cool, she cannot escape from the reality. It will escalate the problem even worst. She said, only five percent are on roads, who try to hijack the movement and 95 percent want peaceful resolution, can a common man, askher that if only 5 % are the violence creaters, why curfew is imposed in the whole valley, why colleges and schools are handed to security forces, why 20 companies of forces were brought in valley, why mobile pre-paid outgoing calls were barred, why Internet services were snapped, the last thought, then why she is giving problems to 95 percent people and caging them, who want peaceful resolution and are indoors, only for some 5 percent miscreants, who are bent to disrupt peace, cannot we say it is an injustice for 95 percent people who support her cause.
She lost her cool, when asked, to tell difference of 2010 agitation and today’s agitation, and how much you were against the past government, how she raised play cards, demanding justice for the people, criticizing the past government, she couldn’t do justice with question and left. When same question asked to a common man, he told the agitation that uprised in 2010 is no different from today’s, that time also we were fighting for self determination and today we are on roads for the same, as our demand is same but one thing has changed, that time NC ruled us and know PDP is ruling us. In 2010, 125 people were killed, today 80 people are killed till now, the difference and short of 45 lives, less than in 2010. After a little chuckle, he said maybe, she is trying to break the record of killing 125 to win the gold medal in Olympics, in Killing lives, and to get award from the Prime Minister of India, by saying that she is the daughter of India and has made India proud, every Indian should be proud of her, and follow her path, every parent must bring up their daughters like Mehbooba was brought up, India is proud of her parents too. The Rajnath Singh told we are waiting for the reports, that will reach us within two to three days by the delegation. After that a delegation will be sent to Kashmir, to look into the grievances of the people.
By calling mainstream political parties, is a repeated mistake, because nothing is in their hands, and this way the cycle of killing cannot be stopped or avoided, by neglecting people of valley and separatists is the mistake that past government did. Opposition parties too, are not happy and satisfied by the meeting with Rajnath, they said he spoke the same language, no new thought was heard from him about the healing touch. The issues that should have been brought into consideration, were kept under the carpet. He also promised to bring alternative method of using of pellet guns soon. Can’t say, it might be more lethal then pellets.
At last, people suffer, die, and wait for the bullets to kill them, that do not see to whom it strikes and kills. The people of Kashmir live in fear to be arrested or killed, not knowing while leaving home, whether they will reach to their family in the evening or not.
The two-visits of Home Minister Rajnath Singh“proved a futile exercise as he failed to address the main issue – genuine demand of Kashmiri people to settle the Kashmir issue as per the real aspirations of the people of entire Jammu and Kashmir as it existed before the Indo-Pak partition. The Singh also failed to give his comments on the “state-sponsored atrocities being committed upon the hapless innocent people for the last more than one and a half month during which seventy innocent persons were killed and thousands injured by Indian security forces.” It said the ongoing public movement has neither been started by any particular group or party nor is provoked by anyone but the people aggrieved of the indifference of government of India towards their genuine cause came out on the roads of their own.
Instead of addressing the genuine cause, the government of India started a blame game and used inhumane methods to crush the people’s voice, The Government of India must address the main issue of Kashmiris and fulfill its promises made to them through UN, and stop committing atrocities upon the peaceful people. By detaining people’s representatives and religious leaders, India can gain nothing but this exercise too will prove futile and harming for it in the long run.
The views presented in this article are the Author’s own, and does not in any way depict the views of the Kashmir Digest. This is an Op Ed
Syed Abadi Hamdani
Freelance Writer
Writes on Social, Economical, And Environmental Issues.