A deliberate ploy
Sir,
This refers to the letter
''Ambiguous about conspiracy' by M M Munshi in response
to the News item ''Article 370 is feeding ground for the
parasites at the heart of paradise'' of your paper of
27th October 99.
The learned writer Mr M M
Munshi seems to be incorrect in dubbing Mr Kotwal the
State BJP President as a confused man or wants to confuse
the readers....the public about the so-called conspiracy
alleged to have been hatched by Pt Nehru and Sheikh
Abdullah deliberately in allowing Pakistan to capture
area of Jammu (that is non-Kashmiri speaking areas). May
I ask the learned writer Sh. Munshi why the areas of
Mirpur district such as Mangla, Alibegh, Gurdawara, the
town of Mirpur, the town of Bhimber and Manawar which
were being held even after the arrival of Indian Army
intentionally remained unattended to and no reinforcement
was sent to the state forces to retain these areas. No
help was sent to Lt Col Sher Jang Thapa who resisted the
Pakistani Forces for about six months and peristed for
extra forces before surrendering in August 1948.
Again General L P Sen in
his most famous book Slender was the thread says
''whenever his forces would try to proceed west of Uri,
he could feel the authorities pulling him south ward''.
The above three events and
other factors raised a stink of conspiracy that the
Non-Kashmiri speaking areas were abandoned only to help
Sheikh Abdullah to rule the state. Had these areas been
recovered/retained there would have been a majority of
non-Kashmiri speaking people and Jammuites would have
tilted the balance of political power in their favour.
According to Rakshat Puri there have been no sufficient
comments even after the lapse of about fifty years that
why non Kashmiri speaking areas of the state were
abandoned?
I do hope that Sh. Munshi
will realise that this was done only to favour Sheikh
Abdullah. The main actors in this game were Sheikh
Abdullah, Pt. Nehru and Chaudhary Gulam Abbas who was
released from the Jammu Jail and was allowed to go to
Pakistan. A time is not far off when this conspiracy
would be unfolded by the research scholars engaged in the
modern history of Jammu and Kashmir State.
Yours etc...
Dr D C Sharma
216 A Shastri Nagar,
Jammu.
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