Those political leaders who keep repeating their stance that India, though the worst victim and sufferer due to nearly four decades of terrorism of Pakistan, should talk to that country, got a firm response from the Union Home Minister Amit Shah by out rightly rejecting such a possibility. The Government, instead, was ready to talk to the youth of Jammu and Kashmir was what the Union Home Minister, who on a three days visit to Jammu and Kashmir, made this very important and sensitive announcement in a largely attended public rally in Baramulla Kashmir. That is precisely for the reason that citizens of the country living in any part, having some grudges, demands, resentment or even dissatisfaction genuinely or otherwise and even mistakenly having taken law into their own hands, could still be talked to, convinced and even persuaded to leave the path of crime to join mainstream to live an honourable life in a democratic setup.
It was, on the contrary, utterly fallacious and ill conceived that a victim should talk to its perpetual hostile offender. Ambiguities, doubts and misgivings planted and nursed too about Kashmir and followed by flawed logic and lies to substantiate the same, are, one by one, getting exposed and negated by circumstantial, evidential, democratic and transparent measures including by constitutional means like abrogation of the Articles 370 and 35 A coupled by initiating massive developmental works and projects related to infrastructure, housing, medical education, power, investments and promotion of tourism. One of the numerous instances is the massive investments of Rs. 56000 crore during the last three years as against merely Rs.15000 crore all these 70 years. The Home Minister talked about the vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi about Jammu and Kashmir regarding its development and bringing in massive investments to the region known to be the “terror hotspot” which, therefore, has become a “tourist hotspot”.
If over a 1.05 crore tourists visited Jammu and Kashmir, all time high and a record of the first kind, and only during the first six months of the year 2022, who on earth can refute that Pakistan sponsored terrorism in Kashmir is counting its last breaths? Unless conditions did not improve to instil confidence of security in tourists, how could such a highest footfall of tourists be witnessed now and not earlier though Jammu and Kashmir did not ”become” fantastically picturesque and with enchanting beauty only in the year 2022 driving as many tourists to visit the UT. In other words, peace and absolute order are fast returning though some isolated acts of violence mainly against innocent individuals do take place but the perpetrators are soon neutralised. Hence, not in any veiled form or with any prospective after thought, the promise of talking to the youth (to remove doubts and misgivings) by the Home Minister provided they shun the path of violence is a departure from the generally held view about such an eventuality and demonstration of intrinsic intentions of the Modi Government to see Jammu and Kashmir developing fast and peace and complete normalcy returning very soon.
Two public meetings, one in Rajouri in Jammu Province and the other in Baramulla in Kashmir valley in which massive public strength was witnessed heralds a totally new change brewing in Kashmir in particular where the scenario for negativities, pessimism, doubts and misgivings are replaced by new hopes and aspirations. It was , therefore, right time for all these mainstream politicians in Jammu and Kashmir to further strengthen it and not create confusions or promising to build castles without any foundations like restoring Article 370 and promising the moon in any political sense not enshrined in the constitution of India. What is the level of economic development in Pakistan occupied Kashmir and how Pakistan and its troops were treating the occupied areas as colonised by them thus subjecting the citizens to repression on slightest dissent must be openly discussed to remove illusions and delusions both, in those misguided youth who have, all these over three decades been wantonly exploited in the name of religion and manufactured concepts by Pakistan and kept in the dark. Therefore, the misguided and misled youth must not lose the opportunity to shun the path of violence and must join the mainstream.
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