If we take a look at the problems being raised within the Jammu and Kashmir meeting elections, some worrying indicators are seen. Many problems with the key events Nationwide Convention and PDP, which have been established within the politics there for a very long time, and the just lately shaped Jammu and Kashmir Apni Occasion, might be harmful from the viewpoint of the unity and integrity of the nation and the peace there.
Query on hanging: Nationwide Convention chief Omar Abdullah has now tried to make the hanging of Parliament assault accused Afzal Guru an election challenge. He has stated that if the approval of the Jammu and Kashmir authorities was wanted for the hanging of Afzal Guru, we might not have given it. He additionally stated that ‘I don’t suppose any objective has been achieved by hanging him… We’ve got seen many instances that the loss of life sentence is given and later it’s identified that the particular person was harmless.’
Favouring Jamaat: Actually, as quickly as Afzal Guru’s brother Ejaz Ahmed Guru introduced to contest the meeting elections, the events began singing this tune. Mehbooba Mufti has been calling the hanging of Afzal Guru an injustice. That is their response as effectively. Not solely this, they’ve additionally demanded that the ban on Jamaat-e-Islami be lifted and it’s allowed to contest elections. In keeping with the present info, members of the banned Jamaat-e-Islami are submitting nominations as independents.
Promise of return of 370: All these events are promising to revive Article 370 in addition to make Jammu and Kashmir autonomous from India and impartial in lots of issues. Together with these items, the manifesto of the Nationwide Convention has introduced to call Shankaracharya Parvat as Takht-e-Suleman and Hari Parvat as Kohe Maran. The Nationwide Convention is being mentioned as a result of such a picture was created within the nation that this celebration and the Abdullah household are extra liberal and pro-India than different leaders.
Tried all choices: Afzal Guru was arrested on 15 December, two days after the assault on Parliament on 13 December 2001. On 18 December 2002, Afzal Guru, SR Gilani and Shaukat Hasan Guru had been awarded loss of life penalty and one of many accused Ahsan Guru was acquitted. On 4 August 2005, the Supreme Court docket upheld Afzal Guru’s sentence and commuted Shaukat Hasan Guru’s loss of life sentence to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment.
Irrelevant challenge: The mercy petition filed by Afzal Guru within the Supreme Court docket was rejected on 12 January 2007. On 23 January 2013, the then President Pranab Mukherjee additionally rejected it and despatched it again to the Dwelling Ministry. Then on 9 February 2013, Afzal was hanged within the morning in Tihar Jail. It was needed to say this case in such element in order that it’s stored in thoughts that every one the choices of the judicial course of had been accessible to him and he was hanged after a very long time. Regardless of this, at the moment events in Jammu and Kashmir are making it a problem.
Congress’s silence: Anyway, there’s nothing shocking on this. These events of Jammu and Kashmir have been opposing the hanging of Afzal Guru from the start. Omar Abdullah was the Chief Minister when in the course of the dialogue within the Meeting, Afzal was declared harmless and a decision was handed in opposition to the hanging. It’s attention-grabbing that this time Congress has an electoral alliance with the Nationwide Convention. The loss of life sentence was executed in the course of the rule of Congress, however it’s avoiding making an announcement in opposition to it. Congress didn’t even oppose these declarations of the Nationwide Convention which appear to be an try to advertise Islamic fundamentalism and separatism.
Change in inner construction: The essential argument of Pakistan or freedom supporters in Kashmir has been that as a result of Muslim majority, Jammu and Kashmir has a separate id and its existence ought to stay in the identical type. After the removing of Article 370, there have been in depth adjustments in Kashmir from legislative and administrative to inner political construction and so on. Its impact has been extraordinarily optimistic on the economic system and the lives of the individuals there. On this, the frequent man has began considering whether or not we had been stored at the hours of darkness until now?
There needs to be opposition: These events appear to suppose that autonomy for Kashmir will strengthen the sentiment of a giant part of the inhabitants to return to the outdated instances, which is able to profit them electorally. It’s clear that these events nonetheless contemplate non secular separatism, terrorism and Pakistan as important for his or her political standing. Though events have their very own political pursuits in elections, however from the viewpoint of the nation, all events, leaders and intellectuals ought to oppose such ideas and conduct in a single voice.