Janhastakshep a campaign against fascist designs
Press release
Dated: 17 July,
2016
The Central rule by proxy in
Kashmir has done much the expected by imposing dictatorial, undemocratic and
coercive curbs on the electronic and print media in the valley in a bid to
throttle any voice of protest from coming out of there and to black out the
coverage of heavy handed and inhuman repression unleashed by the Central
government forces on the people of Kashmir.
It is noteworthy that in 1931
when the Kashmiri people had risen in revolt against the misrule of Dogra
rulers, the feudal Dogra army killed twenty four Kashmiris in a blood bath to
put down the rebellion – those were feudal times. It is perhaps a tribute to
the ‘Great Indian Democracy’ and the ‘democratic spirit’ of India’s ruling
classes that under the ostensible democratic political dispensation in the
country since 1947, the ‘nationalistic’ credentials of the Indian security
agencies in Kashmir have paled into insignificance the bloodbath indulged in by
the feudal Dogra rulers in 1931.
It is indeed sad that the
Indian ruling classes, especially the present ruling alliance, has succeeded in
justifying the suppression of Kashmiri people in the name of ‘Indian
Nationalism’ and for maintaining ‘National Unity.’ Even those who have
articulated concern for the suffering of the Kashmiri people seem to emphasize
more on the heavy handed manner in which the security forces have been acting
and the need for providing relief to the people to alleviate this suffering;
they however, have at large been blind to the political aspirations of the
people in the valley and have avoided taking a supportive stance for the right
to ‘self-determination’ of the Kashmiri people by promising which the Indian
rulers had lured the Kashmiri people to join the Indian union in first place.
Though sections of Indian
ruling classes may talk of winning over the hearts and minds of the people of
Kashmir, the fact remains that they are
content to occupy their territory while caring little for the wellbeing
of the people.
While condemning the brutal
repression unleashed by the Indian security
forces in the valley, Janhastakshep calls upon the people to India to
see through the designs of Indian ruling classes in Kashmir and rise up in
revolt against the repression unleashed on the Kashmiri people in the name of
patriotic Indians.
While we would much like
Kashmir and Kashmiri people to be a part of truly democratic India and fight
together with their Indian brethren for the liberation of suppressed working
masses of the country, but choosing to do so is the sovereign right of the
Kashmiri people themselves in so far as the ‘right to self-determination’ is
their inalienable democratic right to which the government of India pledged
itself in the United Nations.
Janhastakshep demands immediate
end to the repression in Kashmir; strict punishment for the perpetrators of
this violence against the people; and immediate resumption of unconditional
dialogue with the non-official, but the real leaders of the Kashmiri people in
order to find a lasting solution of the problem that takes into account the
democratic aspirations of the people of Kashmir.
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Prof Ish Mishra
Dr Vikas
Bajpai
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