Communal Politics beneath Demography Rant

Communal Politics beneath Demography Rant

(The People need to respond appropriately)

                                                                                                                        Lalit K Kaul

It is paradoxical that the Dogras do not lay any claim over the geographical area – Kashmir, POK and Gilgit Baltistan (GB)- whereas the Kashmiri Muslim leaderships have been claiming that they wholly and solely own Kashmir because they are in a majority. The Dogras need tell the entire Kashmiri community including the residents of POK and GB that they were purchased wholesale by Maharaja Gulab Singh for a consideration of seventy five lac rupees and therefore the ownership of the region lies with them as the Maharaja was a Dogra. This kind of a posture by the Dogra community can be a powerful snub to Kashmiri Muslim leaderships who lay congenital claims over Kashmir Valley and succeed in keeping the society divided. If the entire geographical area is evaluated in terms of its natural resources then for a sum of Rs. 75 lacs the cost of an individual would turn out to be miniscule. Therefore, the Dogras are entitled to lay claim over all the natural resources of the region. Does not this kind of reasoning sound inhuman and illogical? Yes, indeed, but the malicious and venomous politics engaged in by the Kashmiri Muslim leadership since inception deserves only this kind of response. For, if ‘diamond cuts diamond’ then its political extension may be ‘Irrationality cuts Irrationality’.

Communalism in the Blood (Founding Muslim Conference):  

Late Sri Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah obtained post graduation degree from Aligarh Muslim University and on his return to Kashmir sought a teacher’s job which he failed to get after going through the due process. His failure to get a job gave birth to a theory that Maharaja Hari Singh’s rule was tyrannical and exploitative in nature. Maharaja’s subjects included people of many religions including ethnicities, but Sheikh philosophized that only Kashmiri Muslims were being victims of the ruler’s tyrannical rule. So, he founded a political party, after due deliberations with people of coinciding thought process, and named it ‘MUSLIM CONFERENCE’.

So, under the banner of Muslim Conference, Sheikh was to fight for the rights of only Kashmiri Muslims and not even for those Muslims who spoke a language different from Kashmiri. There cannot be better evidence than this for recognizing Sheikh as the politician who laid the foundation for communal politics in the erstwhile princely state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K).

From Muslim Conference to National Conference:

Having enthroned himself as the Messiah of Kashmiri Muslims, time during which Indian independence struggle was gaining heat- he came in touch with leaders of Indian National Congress including Pandit Nehru and who advised him to rechristen his political outfit as ‘National Conference’ from being ‘Muslim Conference’ if he wanted to be a part of a larger political movement in the Indian Sub Continent. So, his opportunistic traits made him to follow suit immediately and thus ‘Muslim Conference’ came to be known as ‘National Conference’, but intent, character and thought process (rabid communal mind) does not change easily and Sheikh lived up to this saying (axiom) till his death.

Muslim Rule:

It is an undisputed historical fact that Muslim invaders including Mughals ruled over Kashmir for centuries and committed genocide of Hindus (the Pandits) and also desecrated their places of worship. Yet, the Pandits – whoever managed to remain in the valley despite persecution- learnt Persian and Arabic and became relevant to the establishment in many/some ways. The point being made is that despite all tyrannical environments (not to forget the atrocities of Aurangzeb, the beloved of Muslims like Assaddudin Owaisi as they love Mughals) the Pandits did not give up learning and did learn new languages as also tried to assimilate as much of a new culture as they could, but the Kashmiri Muslims remained uneducated and uninformed. They were never a part of the ruling elite. Why?

The question I have been trying to find an answer is that why despite 800 years of Muslim rule the Muslims in India remained in a state of abysmal poverty and ignorance? All the talk of Islamic Nizam and its jurisprudence and equality/ brotherhood etcetera, why 800 years of Muslim rule failed to emancipate the Muslims who had been converts either by choice or by force? It is important for those who have been carrying out Jihad against the Kafir Nations to establish the Islamic Sultanate, to brood over such historical facts and not blame others for their deeds. However, the gist of the Islamic rule is that the Hindus who were forcibly converted to Islam or willingly adopted it remained exploited under the torch bearers of Medina Riyasat.

Maharaja Rule:      

Post Islamic rule, Sikhs ruled Kashmir and post Anglo Sikh war; Gulab Singh purchased the territory for Rs. 75 lacs. Whom could the Maharaja induct into administrative offices; whose assistance could he seek? Maharaja certainly would not employ the uneducated/ unlearned vast population of Kashmiri Muslims and therefore the literate and learned Pandits and Dogras found opportunities to be in Maharaja’s durbar and associated public offices. This realistic situation was declared tyrannical by Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah and he called Maharaja’s governance being discriminatory against Kashmiri Muslims. It is a different matter though that during the years I lived on the banks of River Jhelum, my interactions with boat people told me a totally different story and which was diametrically opposite to the perceptions built up by Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah. The boat people remembered Maharaja very fondly and always spoke of him in a very emotive tone.

The Demography Phobia:

It is a known fact that under every Chief Minister, post 1975, the Muslims from Bihar and UP were imported and assimilated into the Kashmiri society in a very planned and conscientious way throwing so called special status and 35 A to winds. Demography did not matter because Muslims were being settled and this was nothing but continuation and extension of communal politics as initiated by their tallest leader Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah who was also referred to as ‘BAB’ with lot of reverence. Article 35 A was misused to ensure that systematically the state subject status of Pandits was snatched away from them.

The Domicile Cry:

The man who, as the CM of erstwhile J&K state, used to enjoy motorbike rides with Bollywood damsels and ran away to play golf in London in 1990 is now shouting from roof tops about how Domicile law is unconstitutional. He and his ilk – all the so called political parties in the Valley- dare not speak about abrogation of Art 370 because they all know that their ‘BAB’ put a stamp of abrogation on it in 1974. That kind of a farce cannot be replayed that they did for 46 long years only to traumatize the entire society of the erstwhile J&K state. The Pakistani pawn (but mainstream crowd’s covertly revered leader) has been kicked out by his bosses across the border forcing him into resigning from the Hurriyat. China has stationed 1,50,000 troops in POK and GB thus subjugating the sovereignty of mainstream’s beloved country Pakistan and hence no more instigating youth for stone pelting and raising Azadi slogans and therefore only issue that can bring in turmoil in the society is that of ‘Domicile’.    

These political criminals who should be tried for traumatizing Kashmiri society are now again scheming for a diabolical path.

Misconceived Notions:

What is this noise about demography? How does its immutable or mutable character affect the process of bringing in peace and prosperity in the region? How relevant is this concept of ‘No Demographic Change’ in organizing societies in a civilized way? The reply to all these kinds of questions is: It is irrelevant to the cause of the people.

Late Sri Muhammad Ali Jinnah and his set of rabid Moulvis coined a theory that Muslims can’t be ruled by Hindu Kafirs because it is disallowed in Islam. A separate country was handed over to them which were to be a model Islamic State for Islamic world to emulate. Pakistan brought up their generations after generations on India (Kafir) hatred; developed a thousand cuts theory; sponsored terrorism in J&K state and Punjab; waged 4 wars on India; swore by disintegration of India, etcetera. In the process of doing so Pakistan ended up losing East Pakistan; becoming enslaved territory of China; engineering riots between Shia Sunni and other Muslim sects, etcetera. Today it is indebted to an extent where it may have to cede its territories to China; it could not face Covid-19; it has no reserves on any front to come to the rescue of its people in emergency situation, etcetera. All this happened and continues to be even when Pakistan had annihilated minorities and there was no threat to its culture (if it ever existed), religion and demography. So!!!

The self proclaimed and ‘I scratch your back , you scratch mine’ kind of leaders- who never went out of their street, mosque or mohalla except for relishing Kebabs with their masters in Pakistan Embassy in New Delhi- too wanted to join Pakistan because it was Islamic state and Kashmir was Muslim majority. So!!!

Being overzealous about anything like, value system; belief system including religious faith stagnates a society and becomes singular cause for its degeneration. More than 5 decades of misconceived notions, political debauchery and religious fanaticism combined with an obsessive relationship with Art 370 (nonexistent since 1964- post Kamraj Plan) achieved only destruction of life and property at unprecedented scales and more than that achieved moral degeneration of unimagined proportions by institutionalizing prostitution in the Valley (nonexistent in pre 1990 era) and elsewhere in the erstwhile state of J&K. Fundamentally, all that happened which according to the intellectuals of Islamic faith is disallowed in Islam and therefore un Islamic. So the paradox is that those who wanted to secede from Kafir India to join with Islamic Pakistan ended up being a non Islamic society.

Honest Intent is Important:

Being a Hindu, a Muslim or a Christian, a Bodh, a Jain or a Parsi has nothing to do with a heterogeneous society being civilized. Democratic or Autocratic dispensation; socialism, capitalism or communism schools of thought; of all these, whatever combination one may choose to organize and govern societies; the results won’t be encouraging unless the leaders who chose a particular combination have honest intent.

The leadership of Kashmir had never in their blood to be honest when it came to leading people for people’s sake. They always led for their own sake and one finds that not a scratch came to them in last three to four decades while many lives were lost and disfigured.

The new Domicile Law is similar to what it is in other states of India; the ‘play boys’ and self proclaimed ‘Bhagat Singhs’ of Kashmir who, for long, masqueraded as leaders of Kashmiri Muslim community should wake up to the reality that they are now residents of a Union Territory and there is no Article 370 for politics of blackmail to go on.    

A Non Issue:

If Kashmiri Muslim’s leadership (the ONE responsible for degenerate value system) is opposing new Domicile Law then they must ask and ensure that all the Kashmiri Muslim businessperson wind up from all the nooks and corners of India because by becoming inhabitants of those places they too are disturbing demography of those towns and cities. For, change is a change in absolute terms. It can’t be theory of ‘play boys’ and ‘Bhagat Singhs’ of Kashmir that only Muslims have a right to change demography of a given region outside of Kashmir. If one talk about % change in the population ratio then it is going to be very miniscule in every part of India including Kashmir and it does not come in the way of progress a society wants to embark upon.

Real Issue:

Across all parties in Kashmir valley, their respective leaderships are feeling like fish out of water post formation of UT. Pre 5^th August 2019, all the provocative public speeches and tweets did not help in creating mass scale disturbance in the Valley, though the reasons for that need to be deciphered in due time. A respite of 2 years before announcement of elections is like being reborn after death. The politicking had to start and therefore those accustomed to degenerate politics started the way they are known to. So, it all depends upon the people as to how they respond to such leaders who have essentially become clueless and therefore irrelevant.

The tragedy is bound to repeat if the people once again fall prey to machinations of this degenerate political class. Geelanis and Co are bound to be reborn as are the Muftis and Abdullas supported by the likes of Owaisis, Mamtas and Kejriwals; therefore the people have to be on the alert and combine in a way to synthesis an alternate political leadership.