Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
Akhil Bharatiya Karyakari Mandal Baithak, Yugabda 5104
Geeta Niketan, Kurukshetra (Haryana)
June 29-30, 2002

ABKMB Resolution on J & K

The Akhil Bharatiya Karyakari Mandal (ABKM) expresses its grave concern over the fast deteriorating situation in recent years in the J & K state due to the separatist and terrorist activities. This situation has been aggravated by the slogan of autonomy for the state. Behind this development lies the deplorable story of ineptitude, short sightedness and minorityism of the political leadership of our country. The day the Maharaja of J & K, signed the Instrument of Accession, without any conditions whatsoever, the problem ought to have ceased for good. But our then Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru halted the victorious onward march of our armed forces and took the matter to the U.N.O. and thus paved the way for internationalizing a problem which would have been solved by us on our own strength. Insistence on appointing Sheikh Mohammed Abdulla as 'Prime Minister' of the state was yet another blunder. The
induction of Article 370 in our Constitution for J & K, though in a chapter of transitory provisions, was taken advantage of by separatist elements. Our short sighted Govt., while talking of complete integration, provided sanction to an independent constitution, a different flag, and different citizenship and different nomenclatures for the 'Chief Minister' and the 'Governor' for this state. This double-speak soon backfired and the Sheikh had to be put behind bars; and then only could the Center appoint a Governor, give jurisdiction to the Supreme Court, the Election Commission and the Comptroller and Auditor General (C.A.G.). Whereas the need was progress towards more integration, it was again halted from 1975 when Sheikh Abdulla was again installed as Chief Minister under Indira Gandhi-Abdulla agreement. He pursued his anti-Hindu and anti-Bharat policies which his son, the present Chief Minister Dr. Farooq Abdulla is assiduously carrying forward reducing the Kashmir valley practically devoid of Hindu population. The law for Resettlement of those who had opted for Pakistani citizenship is yet another dangerous move towards a marked demographic change.
About two lakh Hindu adults are voters for the Parliamentary elections but not for the State Assembly; the duration of the State Assembly is six years and not five as in other States, a discriminating law that makes a woman marrying a man outside the States of J&K, in other parts of the country, lose her right in her father's property and status of a state subject whereas a woman marrying a man hailing from Pakistan getting the right
to make her husband its citizen, and harassment of Hindu citizens by asking them proof of their citizenship of the State while conferring it on the known foreign terrorists and settling them in and around Jammu speak volumes of sinister motives of the present National Conference Govt. under Dr. Farooq Abdulla. However, the ABKM notes that there is a reassuring ray of hope also in the midst of this dismal situation. There are saner people in the state who do not want the cover of Article 370, who are against any sort of autonomy and who want full integration with Bharat. So there are two streams of thought and feeling in the State - one wanting complete integration and the other comprising of separatist and terrorist forces under different names and banners.
In this context, the ABKM has taken into consideration the blatantly discriminatory attitude of the State Govt., towards Jammu and Ladakh regions, and the consequent acute dissatisfaction among the people of Jammu and Ladakh regions, causing them to demand a separate statehood for Jammu and a Union Territory status for Ladakh.
The report of the fact-finding three member committee appointed by the Sarkarvah of the RSS under the chairmanship of Justice (Retd.) Jitendra Veer Gupta has also corroborated the discrimination indulged in by the state Govt.
The ABKM, therefore, resolves as under :
I) The people of Jammu think that the solution of their problems lies in the separate statehood for Jammu region. This has been demonstrated by the agitation spearheaded by the Jammu-Kashmir National Front and other organizations. The ABKM offers its support to their demand. To brand this demand for a separate statehood for Jammu region, which includes the Muslim majority districts of Poonch, Rajauri & Doda as communal, is either crass ignorance or motivated prejudice.
II) The ABKM supports the demand for UT status for Ladakh region.
III) ABKM offers all its support to the forces in the Kashmir Valley that are for full integration with Bharat.
IV) Further, the ABKM feels deeply concerned about the fate of Kashmiri Hindus who have been hounded out of
their homes by the Jehadi Muslim elements. It is now more than a decade that they have been living as refugees
in different parts of the country. The ABKM calls upon the Govts., both Central and State, to have a dialogue with these unfortunate people and find a way for their safe and secure rehabilitation in the Kashmir Valley which has been their home for thousands of years.
V) It is also very important that every precaution and arrangement should be taken to ensure free and fair elections in J & K, which are fast approaching. In view of the past experience the present N.C. Govt. can not generate confidence that it will help conduct free and fair elections.
The A.B.K.M. calls upon patriotic people from all over the country to wholeheartedly support these legitimate demands in the interest of national integrity and ensure that interests of people of J & K will be protected hereafter and cry a halt to the dangerous trend of separatism and terrorism overtaking the State. The Karyakari Mandal urges the swayamsevaks to support the forces of integration and defeat the machinations of anti-national forces.

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