As the Congress ‘scion’ proudly culminated his revivalist ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ in Kashmir with a photo finish, unfurling the Tricolour at Srinagar’s Lal Chowk and enacting playful snowfights before the cameras, one could not but wonder at the irony of things… and at the convenient opportunism of those who kept the pot boiling in Jammu and Kashmir for almost seven decades!
It was the Congress leadership that injected Article 370 into the Constitution of India (CoI), virtually at the last stage of its making, by pushing the Constituent Assembly to agree to it despite many reservations. It was the same Congress that allowed separatists and antiIndia forces to propagate the narrative that Article 370 gave some kind of ‘special status’ to Jammu and Kashmir, when in fact the CoI itself made it clear that 370 was just a temporary provision related to J&K.
It was none other than the Congress that slyly and silently added Article 35A into the appendix of the CoI, bypassing the Parliament, and used it secretively to benefit forces inimical to the unity of India. Article 35A denied basic rights to many communities living in J&K for six decades, while allowing special benefits to separatists and pro-Pakistan agents. It also took away the rights of all Indians living outside the erstwhile Jammu Kashmir state from settling in the state, which has always been as integral to India as any other state. The party then in power at the Centre allowed all this and more, even as India continued to cut a sorry figure before the world community for not being able to solve the “Kashmir problem”.
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