We believe if India as a nation is to survive, the survival of nationalist Jammu province and nationalist people of Jammu and Kashmir is an historical necessity, the need of the under-attack nation. We just can’t allow anti-nationals to create a situation that rid Kashmir of all nationalists in early 1990. We have to fight and defeat the hate and defeat-India forces. We believe that now is the time to unleash a relentless national movement in Jammu province. To mark time would only help secessionists and radical elements cleanse Jammu province of all nationalists. The exodus of nearly 2000 nationalist non-local students of National Institute of Technology Srinagar is the last warning to nationalists in Jammu province and other persecuted communities to unite to face and defeat the anti-national assault.

Objectives

Jammu For India aims at:

1)      Forcing the BJP led-NDA government at the Centre to withdraw the March 2015 PDP-BJP Agenda of Alliance as it has unleashed only forces of instability and subversion and put at stake the very survival of the minorities in the state. It is a document designed to drive the state out of India and enslave the nationalist people of Jammu and Ladakh as well as the internally-displaced seven lakh Hindus of Kashmir.

2)    Ensuring all the nationalist forces, particularly the minorities in the state - Hindus, Sikhs and Buddhists - all rights and freedoms the people in India enjoy by removing all restrictions imposed  upon the  application of Fundamental Rights, including the provisions of Article 35-A, added by the Constitutional Application Order of 1954.

3)     Ensuring all people of Jammu province, irrespective of their religious denominations, right to equality, right to freedom, right to freedom of religion and right to live and protecting them against discrimination on the basis of religion.

4)    Liberating the nationalist and patriotic people of the state from the stranglehold of a religious state. The minorities in the state of Jammu and Kashmir are living in a state of servitude under the precedence of the communal majority.

5)     Combating communalism, separatism and sectarianism and launch a people’s movement to resist the policy of compromise the Indian political class has followed in dealing with these three scourges for the last seven decades of Indian freedom.

6)    Initiating a nation-wide campaign and a state-wide movement against the policy of servile compromise and subterfuge, which the Indian political class has followed in resisting the war of subversion, terrorism and political intervention Pakistan has actively followed to annex the state to its territories as well as the damage it has done to the unity of India, its security and territorial integrity as well as the secular social fabric and the democratic institutions in the State of Jammu and Kashmir.

7)     Carrying on a movement inside the state against the social, economic, religious and communal imbalances fostered by the political elite which has ruled the state for the last 70 years.

8)    Reverse the genocidal process in the state which was unleashed by radical elements in Kashmir in October 1947 itself to help Pakistan complete what it calls the “unfinished agenda of partition”.

Jammu For India makes a fervent appeal to all nationalists in the state to rise above petty political considerations and join the movement launched on April 22, 2016 to achieve these eight pious objectives, considering the fact that the survival and existence of the Indian nation depends wholly and solely on the survival and existence of Jammu province. Time is running out and running out very fast. If we remain indifferent for some more time, the best opportunity for any action would be lost forever. And we just can’t afford that. 

Jai Jammu, Jai Bharat

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We call upon all nationalists in Jammu province, including all victims of Islamist terrorism like refugees from POJK, Pakistan and Kashmir Valley, to get prepared for a full-scale revolt against any measure that wrecks the nation of India in Jammu and Kashmir.

We warn all nationalists and patriots in Jammu and all over the country that a process to dismantle Indian Unity and integrity brick by brick is unfolding in front of their eyes at a very rapid pace.

It needs to be realized with utmost urgency and deep concern that the present dispensation in Jammu and Kashmir doesn’t belong to us. It has been formed by hijacking the mandate which the people of Jammu gave for upholding the national cause and empowering fully people of Jammu province, including refugees from Kashmir, POJK, and Pakistan, politically, socially and economically. The present dispensation ruling the state is practically one of the Hurriyat Conference, as acknowledged by none other than the present Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Mehbooba Mufti, “It took us two months to decide the agenda of alliance. Hurriyat party was also called and getting consent on most of the issues the government is working” (12 December 2015, at Agenda Aaj Tak).

The series of grave events which have taken place in Kashmir very recently, such as the assault on the 2000 nationalist non-local students of NIT, Srinagar, and their running away from Kashmir to protect their life and honor; removal of bunkers from various strategic locations in terrorist-infested Kashmir to the jubilation of seditious crowds; slapping murder charges on Army personnel engaged in anti-insurgency operations; vacation of strategic Army camps from Tattoo Grounds, Srinagar, High Grounds of Anantnag, and many other places; describing the ouster of non-local students from Srinagar as a “non-issue” and a “minor administrative matter”; and calling the death of subversives killed in firing while attacking security pickets, bunkers and camps as “inconsolable loss”, all demonstrate that New Delhi, in complete unison with the separatist establishment in Jammu and Kashmir is dismantling everything that is sacrosanct for the nation in the state.

We apprehend that the Government of India has already come to some understanding with separatists in the state and Pakistan to compromise the Indian position in Jammu and Kashmir and barter away the minorities in the state. The people of India are being kept in the dark about these subversive designs. The legislative mandate is being held hostage and used as legitimizing the compromises already made and still to be made in the near future to facilitate some obscure “bigger purpose” as hinted at both by late Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and Mehbooba Mufti.

We cannot remain mute spectators to the conspiracies being hatched against the nation in the state. We cannot consign ourselves to the fate as suffered by Hindus of Lahore who trusted the Congress party only to get liquidated or converted. We represent the nation of India and we have not given any written attorney to any party to decide the fate of Jammu on whose fate depends the very survival of the nation.

Jammu and Kashmir is not a no-man’s land which has many stakeholders as stated by the PDP-BJP agenda of alliance. The Indian nation is the only stakeholder in Jammu and Kashmir. We cannot endorse the atrocious stakeholder concept as far as the political status of Jammu and Kashmir vis-à-vis Indian nation is concerned. 

Hence we declare the formation and launching of Jammu For India (JFI, 22 April 2016) and invite all nationalists, cutting across party lines, to join this platform to ensure a decisive defeat of forces who want to destroy the sovereignty of India in Jammu and Kashmir and seal the fate of the nationalist Jammu province.

(Concluded)

The Founder Members of Jammu For India include Dr. Ajay Chrungoo, Dr. Agnishekhar, Sushil Pandit, Pushvinder Singh Manhas, advocate Shyam Lal Basson, Devinder Choudhary, Rajesh Dutta, veteran Swayamsevak Yuvraj Gupta, Ajaat Jamwal, Vikram Singh Chib, and Hari Om (convenor).