Include ‘Dogriyat’ in policy for dealing with J&K crisis: Harsh

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Daily Excelsior
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Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 14: Referring to the recent statement of the Prime Minister  Narendra Modi for evolving a solution to the prevailing crisis in the State under the policy of “Kashmiriyat, Insaniyat and Jamhooriyat”,  chairman of  J&K National Panthers Party and former Education Minister  Harshdev Singh today said that the slogan needed modification so as to include ‘Dogriyat’ within its ambit.
In a press statement, Mr Singh said that there had been enough of experimentation with the AB Vajpayee’s slogan of “Kashmiriyat, Insaniyat and Jamhooriyhat” which had failed to cut the ice and to achieve the desired results with large scale death and destruction witnessed in the State during the last couple of years. He said that the votaries of the said policy must bear in mind that the slogans of `Kashmiriyat and Insaniyat’ had failed to prevent the large scale persecution, migration and exodus of miniscule minorities in Kashmir in the past.
Mr Singh said that though the concept of ‘Kashmiriyat’ as promulgated by Nund Rishi and Badshah was laudable but the same had undergone tremendous metamorphosis under the influence of Pak and its paid mercenaries. NPP leader said that the rich culture of ‘Kashmiriyat’ nourished by Sufi Saints and Rishies had largely been vitiated and polluted by certain vested interests.
Lambasting, the BJP leadership at the Centre for pushing ‘Dogriyat’ into oblivion, NPP leader said that it was the Dogra rule which provided the most glaring example of co-existence, tolerance and pluralism. He said that from 1846 to 1947, the State witnessed an era of pluralism and communal harmony. Singh said that during the past years of insurgency and turmoil in the Valley, it was the Dogra land that received the migrants and other victims of militancy with open arms and gave them not only space in Jammu but the much needed love and solace irrespective of their caste, creed or religion. He said that Dogra land with its age old tradition of  tolerance and peaceful co-existence is the only land in the world where lion and goat flourished and survived together. He said that ‘Dogriyat’ was all inclusive and covered Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Gujjars, Bakarwals, Budhists, Jainis besides, all other communities of Jammu region.

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