Saturday, July 25, 2009

How Long This exploitation?

The fact has ultimately started gathering momentum once again that the strength of the separatists in Kashmir is almost neglegible and they do not represent the entire population. A good voting turnout in the recent elections was a sufficient indicator to the same fact that the masses in Kashmir aren't anti-India and confirmed further their belief that their fate was safe only with India and also that their first preference was only peace and prosperity. Some recent developments, though sad, which generated lot of anti-India excitement was no doubt a cause for great concern for all nationalists and obviously an occasion for a lot of jubilation in the separatist camp. It also kept agape for a considerable time the eyes of the state authorities especially the newly administered state government headed by young Omar Abdullah.
Now it took definitely a pretty long time for the truth coming to the fore that all the furore was surely manipulated under a definite separatist plan in order to restore their lost sympathy of the people at large. These elements have always been on the look out for an opportunity to exploit in the fullest so that the masses are made to come on roads. However big or small the reason may be it’s used to fan vigorously the anti-India sentiment so that the separatist leaders instantly become stars and the attention of the entire word media is centered on them. For some time a definite message was conveyed worldwide that India is an aggressor and her forces bent upon continuing her control on the simple people of Kashmir fighting a legitimate battle.
Such things didn’t happen once but dozens of times that the separatist group formed by not more than a dozen self-styled leaders actively supported and sponsored by some fundamentalist Muslim organisations including the most dreaded terror-mongers across the globe have succeeded in putting the valley to ransom demanding the so-called liberation of Kashmir through their most ignoble tactics of fanning the subtle religious sentiment of the simple people of Kashmir. Though this time these elements are fully exposed before the media and the people that the events that were used to fan the sentiments of people against the Indian security forces were the handiwork of some local goons not at all connected with any of the forces.
Once the instant boil of the soda water bottle is over and the unsuspecting people in their individual capacities begin understanding the futility of their outbursts that has already taken toll of their several days earnings, come back to their work repenting at leisure though not in a position to give vent to their feelings openly or in public for the fear of gun still active in Kashmir. Unfortunately the authorities at the helm both at the centre and the state seem either consciously shut their eyes to the facts on ground and going back to work like an ordinary Kashmir worker after the turmoil and waiting for another opportunity to be taken advantage of or otherwise do not at all understand the evil designs of the forces bent upon creating the trouble.
It further gives an occasion to imagine how weak the politicians of different governments at the centre have proved that they’ve never been able to devise an appropriate strategy to weaken the evil designs of a group of separatists in the valley who are bent upon playing hide and seek with the emotions of the innocent people and polluting the peaceful atmosphere of Kashmir time and again. An ordinary problem created by a handful of people who frequently succeed in creating trouble has not only won a bad name for this country but also put the people of a beautiful valley to immense miseries caught between the devil and the deep sea---on the one hand facing the bullets of a terrorist imported from outside and on the other the security forces maintaining law and order; all this happening just for the lack of an efficient planning at the hands of the administrators both inside and outside Kashmir.
Enough is enough, it's now the prime responsibility of the media in particular and the people in general to awaken the authorities from the slumber of such irresponsible behaviour towards this grave national issue that is taking toll of huge public resources, national prestige and thousands of security personnel.