Congress compromising Indian sovereignty in Jammu & Kashmir
by Hari Om on 17 May 2013 12 Comments

Believe it or not, but the larger truth is that the Congress (of “termites”) has never considered Jammu & Kashmir an integral part of India in the real sense of the term. That’s the reason it has been considering Kashmiri Muslims as a race apart ever since October 26, 1947, when Maharaja Hari Singh, who alone had the power under the Indian Independence Act of 1947 to decide the State’s political future, acceded his kingdom to India. Pakistan came into being under the same Act.

 

In October 1949, the Indian Constituent Assembly at the behest of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, a very close friend of the then National Conference president and Jammu & Kashmir Wazir-e-Azam and bitter critic of Hari Singh, adopted Article 306–A (Article 370) that accorded a status to the solitary State of Jammu & Kashmir within the Indian nation on purely religious grounds.

 

Nehru hated Hari Singh from the core of his heart because the latter had got him arrested at Kohala (J&K) in 1946. The Indian Constituent Assembly adopted this atrocious, divisive, anti-democratic and anti-people Article 370 completely ignoring the sane counsels of Dr. BR Ambedkar and one of the Muslim members of the Constituent Assembly, Maulana Hasrat Mohani. Under Article 370, which empowered the State to have a separate Constitution and separate flag and exercise residuary powers, no Central law is automatically applicable to the State of Jammu & Kashmir unlike other States of the Union. Central laws can be extended to the State with the concurrence of or on the request of the Jammu & Kashmir Government. 

 

When Jawaharlal Nehru asked Sheikh Abdullah to convince Dr. BR Ambedkar, Chairman of the Constitution Drafting Committee, of the need to accord a differential and preferential treatment to Jammu & Kashmir State on the ground that it was a Muslim-majority State, Dr. Ambedkar candidly told the Sheikh that he could not endorse his perverted view. Essentially, Ambedkar said: “You want India and Indians to defend Kashmir. You want Kashmir and Kashmiris (read Muslims) to exercise all rights all over India, but you do not want India and Indians to exercise similar rights in Kashmir. I am Law Minister of India and I cannot be a party to such an act of betrayal of the national interest”.  As for Mohani, without mincing words, he told the Constituent Assembly on October 19, 1947 that the “grant of special status to Kashmir on the score of religion would enable it to assume independence afterwards”.

 

Notwithstanding the grave evils such as the rise of communalism, separatism and persecution of the non-Muslim minorities that followed on the incorporation and strict enforcement of Article 370, successive Congress Governments at the Centre continued to treat Jammu & Kashmir differently. So much so that Prime Minister Indira Gandhi not only brought down the Congress government in Jammu & Kashmir in February 1975 and installed as Chief Minister the deflated Sheikh whom Jawaharlal Nehru had got arrested on August 9, 1953 on the charge of “sedition”, but also permitted the Sheikh to review the Central laws extended to the State after August 9, 1953 and seek withdrawal of laws which he considered harmful for the State and the so-called distinct identity of Kashmir.

 

Sadly, even Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao, who could be described as one of our two best Prime Ministers, the other being Atal Bihari Vajpayee, treaded the path the Nehru-Gandhi family had charted as far as Jammu & Kashmir was concerned. At Burkina Faso, he said “Sky is the limit” (read maximum possible autonomy to Jammu & Kashmir.)

 

The present dispensation of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, and Manmohan Singh, whom she appointed as Prime Minister in May 2004 invoking the 1880s anti-democratic Kimberley clause (read selection, appointment or nomination and not election), has gone several steps further to ensure that Kashmiri Muslims are not only held aloof from the national mainstream, but also help Pakistan accomplish its cherished goal of break-India by having a real and effective say in this part of the State.

 

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is on record saying that he is for a “non-territorial” solution to the Kashmir issue (read supra-state measure that would entitle Pakistan to exercise co-equal sovereign powers with India in this part of Jammu & Kashmir). In other words, the present dispensation at the centre has no hesitation in compromising Indian sovereignty in Jammu & Kashmir, which is legally and constitutionally Indian like other States. It has failed to implement its non-territorial solution because the national mood has not permitted it to play with the territorial integrity of India.

 

But the hotchpotch, minority and roundly condemned Congress-led “most corrupt” UPA Government is not only more than willing to accommodate the Pakistani pernicious stand on Jammu & Kashmir, but is more than willing to appreciate and accommodate the Chinese stand on Ladakh, an integral part of India. I am not exaggerating. This is a fact which can be easily verified from the unsettling statements Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde and External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid and the Congress party have made in the wake of the April 15 provocative and utterly unacceptable Chinese intrusion into Indian territory in Daulat Beg Oldi (DBO) sector in Ladakh. The heavily-armed intruders from the People’s Liberation Army erected five tents deep inside our territory, deployed Molosser dogs which are best for keeping vigil in these high-altitude areas, and fixed a banner outside the illegal camp that read in English “you are in Chinese side”.   

 

It would be appropriate to quote verbatim what they have shamelessly said in order to put things in perspective and establish that the Congress-dominated minority UPA Government is not only allowing Beijing to affront the self-respect of the 1.25 billion-strong Indian nation, but also willing to yield to the Chinese bullies and expansionists. While talking to reporters on the sidelines of the defence investiture ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhawan on April 27, the Prime Minister said: “We do have a plan. We do not want to accentuate the situation… It is a localised problem”.

 

The same day, Home Minister told reporters at Daman, “I have personally been to that area and it is a ‘no-man’s land’, but it is also a disputed area” and that “our people sometimes go there and so do theirs”. And just a day before the Foreign Minister told reporters that “these disputes occur because there is variance of perception about the demarcation of the Line of Actual Control (LAC)”. The stand of the Congress party has also been the same. In fact, it went several steps further and accused the BJP of creating a situation that could provoke Beijing to declare war on India. This was what Congress spokesperson Rashid Alvi said while talking to reporters in New Delhi.

 

What Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid said in Beijing on May 10 while talking to reporters establishes beyond doubt that he went to China to identify New Delhi with the Chinese anti-India cause in Ladakh. He told media persons that he did not raise the issue of the Chinese intrusion into Ladakh with the Chinese Premier and his Chinese counterpart and that he would want to live in Beijing some day!

 

All these statements only serve to prove that the present dispensation in Delhi is playing havoc with the country and undermining its sovereignty and territorial integrity. It is not statesmanship. It is political debauchery. Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was right when on April 27 he dubbed the UPA Government “weak”, said it has suffered a “total blackout” in its foreign policy and urged the nation to decimate the Congress. Indeed, the Congress is negating the nation itself.  

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Hari om ,remember one thing, the Crescent and Star flutters in the hearts and the minds of the brave people of Kashmir. No amount of repression and obfuscation can hide that fact. The Kashmiris prove it every year in the days of August. What do you say about a people that hoist Pakistani flags and hold freedom rallies on August 14th (Pakistan independence day), and then the next day on August 15th (Indian independence day) they burn Indian flags and host black flags across the state.
It says that the Kashmiris in their hearts and in their souls are Pakistan. they listen to Pakistani songs, watch Pakistani Television and root for the Pakistani cricket team during the India-Pakistan matches. Pro-freedom, Pro-Pakistan and Anti-Indian demonstrations continue in Srinagar. “They” hide the pictures of the Pakistan flags, but once in a while, they slip up. Keep an eye out, you will find hundreds of green Muslim flags mingled in with Pakistani flags in the crowds, and atop building in Indian Occuped Kashmir. You see them burning the Indian flag and kissing the Pakistani flag. They yearn for freedom and they aspire to become Pakistanis. Pakistan is their destiny and “Azadi” (freedom) is their dream.

observer
May 17, 2013
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@ OBSERVER,

Mr Nawaz Sharif appears to have heard your prayers.He wishes to settle ALL outstanding issues with India.Let us hope your Pak flag waving,Indian flag burning,stone pelting Kashmiri brothren get their DUE from new Pak Premier.BTW, while half the valley seems to be listening to Paki music [as per your info], WHOLE of Pakistan seems sold to bollywood movies.While the valley may revel at the exploits of Pak cricket team, Pak players throw tantrums when not "bought" by IPL franchise.In short, 10 lakh Muslim youth from valley are in love with Pakistan, a country which looks like falling in love with India!
Jitendra Desai
May 17, 2013
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The Congress at Independence and now, has never believed in the sovereignty of India. That is why it asked Mountbatten to continue as Governor General after Independence.
Then Nehru ignored Patel and General Cariappa and let Verrier Elwin facilitate the takeover of the northeast by Christian missionaries and the Chinese. Later still, it handed over the country to Sonia G and her Christian - Muslim politburo headed by Oscar Fernandes and Ahmed Patel.
So what sovereignty are you talking about?
N S Rajaram
May 17, 2013
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@Jitendra Desai

Our friend Observer is an Indian Muslim as evidenced by his earlier remark on another thread. He referred to Morarji Desai as 'Our' Prime Minister. I had always guessed that he is an Indian Muslim. He appears to be schizophrenic in his attitudes. On the one hand pro Pakistan and on the other fascinated by this Hindu website. If he is truly pro Pakistani why does he suffer living in India ? Why not migrate ?

Yes, Nawaz Sharif is clearly holding out an olive branch because he knows only too well that Pakistan is a sinking ship and needs to be bailed out. Whether it indicates a true change of heart remains to be seen.

@NS Rajaram

Recently there was an expose (I believe it was from you) about Verrier Elwin's exploitation of tribal girls in the north east. Re: Nehru, he was fooled by the Sheikh and influenced on Kashmir by his romance with Mountbatten's wife. On China he was influenced both by his own ideological naivete and the baleful Krishna Menon.

There is a very interesting article in First Post which quotes Surjit Bhalla as saying to SG : It took a white socialist woman (Besant) to inaugurate the Congress and it takes a white socialist woman to destroy it a hundred years later.

In my opinion this is an unfair comparison, similar to the well known journalist (cannot recall his name) who compared Sonia to Annie Besant.

Not at all ! Annie Besant was a genuine fighter. Sonia is a corrupt woman motivated by greed and ambition.

It is India's misfortune that Gandhiji intervened to instal Nehru as the PM when the rest of the Congress Committee had voted for Sardar Patel. Thousands of our jawans died in vain in Kashmir and China and the Partition itself was a disaster.

A pro minority Congress and its anti Hindu policies plus the upstartism of these same minorities has made life difficult for India.

But both minorities will not prevail.

Dr.Vijaya Rajiva
May 17, 2013
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J.D,thanks for acknowledging the fact that a common Pakistani (aam admi) does not have hatered against its is neighbours (unlike Indians who have a deep hatered towards their neighbours on both sides of their borders),in the mean time start packing your bags and stuff from IOK (Indian occupied Kashmir) as the issues are going to be settled very soon,Chinese are also in the mood of "settling" all the issues with India too,so it is a good start to say the least!
observer
May 17, 2013
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The problem of Kashmir has been personal. Personal ambitions of Sheikh Abdullah to create his Sheikhdom and personal handling of Kashmir resolution by Nehru. Unfortunately later personal belief of Indira and Rajiv that the dictated the politics of Kashmir, which unfortunately true to a large extent. All these leader had egos biger than sovereignty of this nation.

Such acts have made many fools across border believe that Kashmir will soon cease to be part of Indian Union. Such fools should take care of Balochistan, Gilghit and POK, otherwise Pakistan will begin and end within Islamabad itself
Amit Raina
May 18, 2013
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@ Dr Vijaya Rajiva, Thank you for your comments.Yes we know,our friend OBSERVER is an Indian citizen.My response to him about Nawaz Sharif was toungue in cheek.But it appears wasted on him.Instead he is ORDERING Indians to pack up from the valley.Let us wish him good luck.

@ OBSERVER - Yes we poor Indians will pack up as and when Mian Nawaz Sharif tells us to do sir.
Jitendra Desai
May 18, 2013
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@Jitendra Desai

Our friend protesteth too much ! Regardless (and I still believe that he is on the list of returnees) of his irrelevant comments, the specific problem that India now has is the Talibanisation of Pakistan.

This is, ofcourse, linked to the larger general problem of the Caliphate mentality. Internationally, the West is waking up to their own stupidities in dealing with this problem.

In India the immediate solution is the introduction of a Uniform Civil Code. Since Hindu families are following modern population practices certainly in the next two decades or more the Muslim population will increase because of sharia and their penchant for breeding like rabbits.
Dr.Vijaya Rajiva
May 18, 2013
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A 'uniform civil code'....what a joke!
In a society/religion that is BASED (in capitals) and depends on the division of the humans into various groups (reaching the depths to be called an "un-touchable") and still have the audacity to profess about "uniformity" speaks volumes about obliviousness of the commentator to the subject and still uses "Dr" as a prefix!
observer
May 18, 2013
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Separatist Kashmiris are the most hypocritical people born on the face of mother earth. They will say "no matter how much development India does in Kashmir, we will never be a part of it and we want independence". Just when there are elections in Kashmir and one surprisingly finds the voter turn out greater than the average across India, one is perplexed by the dualistic behaviour of these people and then when you ask then they would say " Even we are humans and we also need development to live". Either they don't know what freedom means or they don't know what they actually want. The separatist psyche of Kashmiris is hijacked by the people who mostly live in the city of Srinagar. How can one not notice if 93% people cast vote in Panchayati Elections. Panchayati Raj is decentralized democracy, Democracy at roots and a poor rural folk from kashmir are game for it. The separatists will do every thing anti Indian and then when law tries to bring order they try to seek refuge in Indian Democracy saying " We are just peaceful protestors and protest is allowed in democracy". Yasin Malik, the self styled modern Avatar of Gandhi is just like any other dhongi baba roaming the streets of Haridwar. I was surprised to see his facebook page saying that he was admit in ICU in Delhi and please pray for him whereas on the same day I saw him shopping in a Mall in Delhi. I can go on and on and on regarding my hypocritical brethern who given an opportunity would cheat the same God who they believe to be in love with. As far as UPA is concerned it is doing the same mistake which BUSH did in Pakistan alligning with the so called leaders instead of the people. They dont even have enough people who understand the separatists as did the KASHMIRI MAFIA of Indira Gandhi
Koshur
May 19, 2013
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@Observer. ... Kashmiris prove every year in the month of August??? What do they prove??? That we are so seasonal??? Just like Indian Monsoon..hahaha... keep building the castles in air. Ignorance is no more a bliss but a crime. Know the ground realities and accept the truth. The world has changed and it's better if you guys also change at the earliest or else keep suffering because of your own misery.
Koshur
May 19, 2013
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Keep ha ha-ing now,time will tell who will have the last laugh!
observer
May 19, 2013
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