shoot hip

[Guest guest]

Namaskar Mitra,

 

Indian politicans and journalists talk too much, invariably shoot from the hip.

The word 'Reading' hey what does that mean! Like his father and grandpa junior

Abdullah loves rhetoric. Now he is asking the RSS for a certificate on

patriotism. He said that the division of J and K into Jammu, Valley and Ladakh

would be a justification of 2 nation theory. I wonder why the such guys kept

quiet when Christian majority states like Mizoram were carved out of Assam. In

a Secular state how could religion be made the basis for the creation of a new

state.

Cheers and om sanjeev

 

Abdullah III talks too much

By Arvind Lavakare

Even as he readies to sit on the "dynastised" throne of Jammu & Kashmir, Omar

Abdullah is talking the language of his father and grandfather -- abusive and

arrogant. On June 22, he belittled our prime minister (see The autonomy shrill

-- yet again); on June 30, he cast aspersions on the patriotism of the RSS

leaders and their knowledge of J&K. Reacting to the latest RSS resolution

demanding a separate constitutional status for Jammu and Ladakh districts,

Abdullah labelled the move as a "prelude to handing over of Kashmir to

Pakistan" (PTI report in The Asian Age, Mumbai, July 1, 2002, pg 3). He also

told PTI, "These leaders [of RSS] do not know anything about Kashmir, but will

continue to talk about the problem. They should jump into the troubled waters

rather than being a mere spectator on the river bank." Now opposing the call

for J&K's trifurcation is one thing -- it's a part of our vibrant democracy

that allows public dissent. Even our new deputy prime minister, a RSS man for

over half a century, opposed the demand for trifurcation. Being critical of the

RSS ideology is also part of that democratic dissent. This writer himself

detests several facets of the RSS. But heresy in the form of dissent is another

thing altogether. The latest outburst of Abdullah III is just that; and it has

shown up, in equal measure, his breeding and his pathetic ignorance of the RSS

swim in the turbulent waters of J&K. The chap must have been tilting at an MBA

course in England when, in 1992, Dr Murli Manohar Joshi, the thoroughbred from

the RSS-BJP stable, hoisted the national flag at Lal Chowk in Srinagar to

culminate the 15,000km all-India Ekta Yatra during which the Kashmir Forum of

the RSS, based in the valley, organised speeches throwing light on the real

nature of the problems in J&K. And the lad was probably having fun in Mumbai's

Sydenham College of Commerce in March 1988 when the same Kashmir Forum

celebrated Maha Shivaratri in Srinagar with a public programme attended by

thousands. The RSS association with J&K goes back, in fact, to the days when

the brat's daddy was himself a teenager. To enlighten him on that old, old

association, somebody should tell Abdullah III to read just four pages of RSS

-- A Vision In Action (Sahitya Sindhu Prakashan, second edition, updated, 1998,

by H V Seshadri). That 415-page book by a veteran Sangh patriarch records the

following: a.. Soon after the British parliament's declaration of 3rd June

1947 left it to the princely rulers of undivided India to accede to either

India or Pakistan or remain independent, some Muslim elements in J&K began

pressing the state's Maharaja to opt for Pakistan while R C Kak, the state's

prime minister, advised him to remain independent. It was the RSS leaders in

the state who exerted every possible influence to persuade the Maharaja to

declare his accession to India. Submission of memoranda and personal meetings

by the local RSS chief, Pandit Prem Nath Dogra, were followed by thousands of

telegrams from all parts of the state and its neighbours; even the RSS chief of

Punjab, held in high esteem, hastened to Srinagar to meet the ruler on this

issue. b.. Though J&K's fate remained undecided on August 14, 1947, the

postal authorities in Srinagar hoisted the Pakistani flag on their office that

day because the post offices within the state came under the Sialkot circle,

which became a part of Pakistan on that day. It was the RSS and its

sympathisers who ensured that the postal authorities pulled down that flag. And

next day, it was the Indian Tricolour that flew atop most of the houses and

shops in Srinagar. The flags had been prepared in the hundreds in the RSS

office and distributed to the people. c.. While the pro-Pakistan elements in

J&K intensified their propaganda to pressurise the Maharaja to join Pakistan,

an RSS worker in the guise of a Muslim wormed himself into a camp of the

state's armed forces at Srinagar and secured detailed plans of the projected

Pakistani invasion. A prominent Sangh worker personally informed the commander

of the state forces about the plan and the impending tragedy. Later

developments tallied exactly with what had been uncovered by the Sangh's secret

agent. d.. Golwalkar, the Sangh's venerated "Guruji" in whom the Maharaja had

implicit confidence, was pitched by Sardar Patel to talk to the sovereign in

those crucial mid-October days of 1947. "Guruji" flew to Srinagar on the 17th

of that month and returned to New Delhi two days later to report the Maharaja's

readiness to accede to India. [Why the Instrument of Accession was signed only a

week later is another story that does no credit to Jawaharlal Nehru.] e.. By

October 22-23 of that year, the entire Jammu-Sialkot border was aflame, what

with scores of villages reduced to ashes by Pakistan's raids. With no troops on

hand, the fate of Jammu and the countryside hung in a precarious balance. It was

the young men of the RSS who rose to the occasion then with their battlefield

valour. Thus was Jammu saved; and without Jammu there was not the ghost of a

chance of saving Srinagar even with India's fighting forces that were to come

soon to protect the state and keep it warm for Sheikh Abdullah's regime. f..

Five hundred RSS workers toiled round the clock for seven days and made the

Jammu aerodrome ready for the Indian Dakotas to land. Roads were also repaired

and constructed by them in record time. Simultaneously, hundreds of

swayamsevaks from Jammu laid down their lives in saving the lives and honour of

tens of thousands remaining in Mirpur after it fell into Pakistani hands. g..

Pak raiders had repeatedly intruded into Kotley, a strategic border town, and

indulged in atrocities. Led by their city secretary, the RSS workers

strengthened the morale of the locals, roused their patriotism and organised

them for heroic resistance. h.. When the commander of the Indian garrison

inside Kotley thought it too dangerous to risk his scant men to recover the 20

chests of badly needed ammunition dropped astray by our air force, a local

Sangh worker, Krishanlal, dared to lead 20 others of his ilk into a death trap

while recovering 17 of those chests. Six of them lost their lives in the

process. The fag end of the battle to save the town claimed a seventh Sangh

martyr. i.. The situation in the Kashmir Valley was similar. The swayamsevaks

joined Sheikh Abdullah's militia in large numbers to fight the Paki raiders and

also stood by the Indian Army in throwing out the invaders. One of them who

died in the battle to save Srinagar was Pandit Manmath, an RSS worker in

Abdullah's militia. Fifty-five years after the above display of patriotic

valour, Abdullah III now has the impudence to say that the RSS is wanting to

hand over J&K to Pakistan. He has the gall now to say that today's descendents

of the RSS of 1947 "know nothing of Kashmir". Really, Mr Abdullah, you've begun

to talk too much, and in doing that you show no trace of 'Kashmiriyat' or any

other culture. As for the RSS resolution on separate status for Jammu and

Ladakh districts, the plight of the two regions at the hands of those who've

ruled from Srinagar was first made public in 1952 -- by the RSS. Half a century

later, that demand has been reiterated not only by the study of a three-man team

of the RSS appointed last year, but even by the Muslims of Jammu and the

Buddhists of Ladakh. And the core of that demand is not communal per se but the

despotic discrimination of a dynasty's misrule. We'll see that next week.

Tailpiece: "I can't understand why everybody keeps talking about Kashmir. There

is no such thing as Kashmir. It is the state of Jammu and Kashmir. The Kashmir

valley is just about 6,000 square miles out of a total of 84,000 sq miles of

the state. When people say the wishes of Kashmiris should be taken into

consideration, I want to ask, what about the wishes of all the others, the

people from Jammu, from Ladakh?" (Karan Singh, son and heir of the last J&K

maharaja, in The Times of India, July 15, 2001). Abdullah III should consider

that quote in its entirety as his first lesson to be learnt before he next

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