Tarun Vijay
Instead of challenging anti nationals , Congress leader Mr Chidambaram is putting hurdles in the path of newly appointed interlocutor and proposing to buy an illusory peace by yielding before the jihadis by offering them more autonomy. Interlocutor should be given a free hand to begin talks and explore possibilities of peace. Instead of making his task easy such self appointed ‘solution providers’ are making his job difficult by un necessary comments and helping create false expectations . Mr Chidambaram often quotes various verses from the immortal classic Thirukural (created by -Thiruvalluvar) to present his case. This time, while advocating autonomy for J&K, he violated the spirit of Thirukural and Indian nation undermining the very essence of Thiruvalluvar’s life and philosophy. Nothing surprising for a Congress who began Indian freedom’s tryst with destiny with corruption charges like the jeep scandal in 1947, and losing 1.25 lakh kms of Indian territory to enemies. For them, Indian terirory’s is just a piece of land-whose importance is judged by what it gives to them in return – and if ‘not a blade of grass grows there’, ( Nehru’s infamous quote in Loksabha on debate on Aksai Chin) why should they be worried about it? Mr Chidambaram got his lessons rightly from his party’s tallest leader . But here, lets talk about what he meant by ‘autonomy’ and how he negated Thirukural’s message he loves to quote .
He forgets that Kural 747 warns that a country must be able to defend itself from treachery. This Kural warns against those who undermine its defenses from within. That’s exactly what Chidambaram is going. Undermining country’s unity and soldiers’ morale.
Three Kurals ( sacred stanzas) of the great Tamil saint-philosopher Thiruvalluvar sums up how a nation should be defended and remain alerted against the traitors. Kural 745 says- a good fort (country) is the one which is unconquerable.
Kural 746 says-an ideal fortress (country) should possess warriors with courage to defend it .
Mr Chidambaram, by advocating autonomy to Kashmir have emboldened the traitors and insulted the warriors who give their life to defend india and keep the honor of the tricolor intact.
He failed the test of Thirukural on all the points on a country’s defense explained so clearly by Thiruvalluvar. He was our Home Minister and hence must know the deadly terrain and circumstances a soldier has to live in and thwart any action by the enemies. When he advocated autonomy for J&K , did he even pondered for a moment to imagine what impact his statement will have on the morale of the soldiers? Forget the party, forget your ideology because a party or its ambitions cant be bigger than the nation. Being a senior Indian leader, his statement carries weight and it make a difference.
Does he think the soldiers in J&K are fighting a meaningless, foolish war or are they defending the motherland against the machinations of traitors funded and trained by enemies? Does he think J&K imbroglio is due to less authority given to its leaders and more the autonomy is given more would be the chances of having a nationalist, happier and prosperous people there? And does that apply to Jammu and Ladakh also or for him J&K means just the Sunni Muslim Kashmir valley? Then what about the Hindus exiled from that valley ? Do they have a stake in any offer of autonomy to Kashmir or they are just irrelevant and what we need to do is to preserve and nurture the Islamic republic of Sunni Muslims ?
He has proved exactly what a person would be described as one who is undermining the country’s defense from within.
J&K has already got the highest levels of autonomy in many crucial segments that no other Indian states enjoys. it has a separate flag, not available to any other state. It has a separate constitution and no Indian law passed by the parliament is applicable to J&K unless the state assembly approves it. No other Indian state has this privilege.
The state has separatists traitors who speak against the Indian nation and a media that publishes articles and editorials as if they are guest authors from across the border.
No text book in the valley carries the Indian national anthem in the beginning or in the end, as is mandatory in rest of India. We saw it when we inspected valley schools as Member of Parliamentary Standing Committee on HRD Ministry and pointed it out to the principal secretary education, J&K in the meeting. His reply was, ‘ sir, its a good suggestion. Will have it examined’.
The freedom of expression is limitless in J&K, more than any state that is still ruled by the Congress. So much autonomy is there in valley Mr Chidambaram that members of armed forces, para military organizations get insulted by the Jihadi crowds and no one, from his party has ever said a single word condemning such elements and organisations. When Lt Ummer Fayaz was murdered and later SSP Md Ayub Pandit was lynched in mosque, there was no editorial condemning the incidents in local papers and demanding harsh action against the blood thirsty terrorists.
In fact, nobody uses the word ‘terrorist’ in valley- for media they are dreamy eyed ‘militants’ who get draped in a Pakistani color when shot dead by our forces.
Still more autonomy? So much is the autonomy Mr Chidambaram in valley that it is the first and perhaps only state in the world where the language people speak day and night- the Kashmiri, is NOT recognized as the state language and they imported Urdu to be declared their official state language !! Autonomy to hate their language, their culture and traditions and the legacy- that none remembers Maharishi Kashyap who founded Kashmir, and hence the name Kashmir. Show me a text book where they remember their founder Rishi’s name?
So , pl elaborate now, who needs more autonomy ? Soldiers on the ground level, to take firm decisions against anti-national elements or the terrorists demanding ‘azadi’ from india? Should it be taken back to pre-1953 position?
The autonomy they have today makes it possible that none from the rest of the country can buy a single inch of land in J&K and those soldiers who shed their blood to defend the state and risk their lives to save them from natural calamities are not allowed to even have a small apartment or a colony in J&K. The moment it is proposed, a huge protest by the traitor organizations are held .
So much autonomy is given to J&K that those citizens, who are Kashmiris, but happen to be Hindus and came here in 1947, are not given state citizenship fearing they would ‘disturb’ the Muslim majority status of the province.
What more ‘autonomy’ you have in your mind to be given to J&K Mr Chidambaram?
Mr Chidambaram is a senior Indian politician, having adorned many ministries and certainly well versed in Thirukural. So let me give him more examples from what Thiruvalluvar’s Thirukural said about people who are supposed to defend the nation and society.
Kural 728 says- Those who can not effectively speak good things in an assembly are useless however educated they are ( might be ).
And Kural 730 says- Those who fear the assembly and can not express ( their views) convincingly resemble the dead.
(The author is former MP)
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