UlanBatori wrote:Is it only 2? I thought the KV would be one all by itself so it can reduce itself to a pakistan. They are still allowed to drag Jammu down with them?![]()
Why BJP Did Not Trifurcate Jammu and Kashmir
UlanBatori wrote:Is it only 2? I thought the KV would be one all by itself so it can reduce itself to a pakistan. They are still allowed to drag Jammu down with them?![]()
ARTICLE 370 IS REALLY GONE!!! LADAKH IS FREED FROM ISLAMIC RULE!
UlanBatori wrote:^ The other narrative is that Jammu can conceivably go zooming forward in development - and population growth by influx of non-moos from rest of India. This will bring pressure on the Valley which can then choose between ghettoization or assimilation. The wealthy and productive citizens from the warmer, lower-level Jammu will move northwards for pleasure and then for profit. Best way to shift the demographics towards a more productive and sensible citizenry.
The fact to be faced is what Sheikh Abdullah drove home in his "Flames of The Chinar": that the KV moos will bellyache and agitate no matter who is ruling, and are genetically self-destructive. Trait of Hill People everywhere: hardy, obnoxious. They are not going to change to Gujaratis overnight. So they have to become a minority, for the place to progress. The majority has to have the danda in hand, to keep the terrorist inclinations of the minority also down. No other choice.
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It has been contended by no less than Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the state’s special status had impeded development. But with just around 12% below the poverty line, J&K should be the envy of states that are considered developed, including Gujarat.
The state enacted and successfully enforced the Big Landed Estates Abolition Act, 1950, under its first prime minister Sheikh Abdullah. Even the bitterest critic will concede this was the most progressive land reform effected anywhere in India. The law helped expropriate 4.5 lakh hectares of cultivable land held in excess of 22.75 acres (excluding orchards) from 9,000 absentee landlords and redistribute it among the landless peasantry. This is one of the main reasons for the low levels of poverty in Kashmir now. Under Abdullah, J&K was also the first to provide free education to all children up to high school. Today young men and women educated in Kashmir are leading contenders in all-India service exams. The Rhodes scholar of 2018 was a Kashmiri.
But by imposing a total lockdown in the state to back the tearing away of what was no more than a fig leaf, detaining those who had always been loyalists of the Indian state and participants in governments that had readily acted under the diktat of the Intelligence Bureau, the Union government has administered a mortal blow to any pretensions of democratic freedom in Kashmir. Srinagar’s cathedral mosque has been sealed, its compound fencing laced with concertina wire. But in Srinagar’s mohallas, neighbourhood mosques are a live conduit for communication in the absence of instruments such as simple cell phone messaging.
The UT of J&K will now be led into its future by youth, educated, talented and consumed with hatred, 12,000 of whom have been detained under the draconian Public Safety Act, to be held indefinitely in locations undisclosed even to their families, without trial, including juveniles as defined under India’s Juvenile Justice Act.
There has been no widespread violence but Kashmiris have responded with a totally silent but exhaustive shutdown of their own, with markets opening only early morning and late evening to allow homes to continue functioning.
To my mind, full statehood alone will get Kashmiri support, even if only tacitly from the separatists.
Srinagar, Oct 30: Thousands of migrant labourers have fled Kashmir during past two weeks after the killing of 11 truckers and labourers in South Kashmir.
According to an official, there were around 50,000 non-Kashmiri labourers working here in mid October this year when the first trucker from Rajasthan was killed two weeks ago. The killing was followed by gunning down of a fruit merchant and then two more truckers that led to panic among non-Kashmiri labourers.
The official said that around 25,000 labourers have fled during last one week and last night’s killing of 5 West Bengali labourers have led to more panic and exodus of these workers.
A_Gupta wrote:In the New Indian Express, Wajahat Habibullah opines:
J&K, the Union Territory: What now?
The Centre should restore democratic liberties to Kashmiris and ensure that the truncated region receives statehood soon.
http://www.newindianexpress.com/opinion ... 55005.htmlThe state enacted and successfully enforced the Big Landed Estates Abolition Act, 1950, under its first prime minister Sheikh Abdullah. Even the bitterest critic will concede this was the most progressive land reform effected anywhere in India. The law helped expropriate 4.5 lakh hectares of cultivable land held in excess of 22.75 acres (excluding orchards) from 9,000 absentee landlords and redistribute it among the landless peasantry. This is one of the main reasons for the low levels of poverty in Kashmir now. separatists.
must disagree however with equating KM's with `all hill people'. Himachal is a good example of what Kashmir can be - far higher incomes and social indicators and a huge contribution to the armed forces. KM's aren't even hill people - they are valley people.
Varoon Shekhar wrote:On discussion show after discussion show, Kashmiri Moslems and non-Kashmiris alike, keep on parroting the line that these terrorist attacks on labourers and truck drivers et al, are fully the responsibility of the "government". Meaning that it's the government's duty to protect the people of Kashmir, and so if people die in terrorist attacks, it's the government's negligence, intelligence failure or outright ineptitude.
Sachin wrote:The sad joke is that the same logic did NOT apply when there were elected governments within J&K state (now not existing).
Vikas wrote:The painful reality of life is that random people will get killed in Kashmir by terrorists. No govt can provide complete security. We need to accept it, find way to fix this and move on. As long as we can bring the number closer to zero while raising the number of pigs killed to 300-400, we are on the right track.
Yes it gives masala to lot many Paki-lovers to blame India but aren't they the same crowd which is crying hoarse over lack of telecom coverage in certain areas, consequences be damned.
A gazette notification approved by President Ram Nath Kovind said the Judges of the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir of the erstwhile State of J&K holding office will become Judges of the common High Court for the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and Union Territory of Ladakh and all the provisions of the Constitution of India including provisions relating to appointment of Judges of the High Court will be applicable to the Judges of the common High Court.
“The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), with the approval of President, will serve needs of the Union Territory of Ladakh. However, the UPSC will make recruitments only for Group “A” and Group “B” (Gazetted) posts,” the MHA order said.
It added that the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, being a UT with Legislature, will have its own Goods and Services Tax whereas the Union Territory of Ladakh, being a UT without Legislature, will be governed by the Union Territory Goods and Services Act, 2017.
“Those Central Laws, Ordinance and Rules which are applicable to the whole of India except the erstwhile State of Jammu and Kashmir, will be made applicable to the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh,” the Order said, adding that certain Central Laws and Rules which were already applicable to erstwhile State of Jammu and Kashmir will remain in force in the two new Union Territories.
While the Legislative Council has been abolished, the reference to the State ‘Legislature shall be construed as the ‘Legislative Assembly of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir’, the Centre order said. It may be mentioned here that the Centre has granted 90-seat Assembly to Jammu and Kashmir Union Territory while the UT of Ladakh hasn’t been granted the Assembly but its two districts of Leh and Kargil will continue to have Autonomous Hill Development Councils.
The Home Ministry also announced omission of “permanent residents or hereditary State Subjects”.
“… there are references in the State laws that have been applied to the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, and the Union Territory of Ladakh to the expressions ‘permanent residents’ or ‘hereditary State Subjects’…, wherever they occur, shall be omitted,” it said.
The references, by whatever form of words, to the “State of Jammu and Kashmir” or “Jammu and Kashmir” or “State” shall from October 31 be construed as “Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir” or “Union Territory of Ladakh”, as the case may be, it said.
Those who were residents of the princely State of Jammu and Kashmir at the time of the State’s merger with the Union of India and their descendants are called State Subjects and they used to get privileges over land and jobs in the erstwhile State of Jammu and Kashmir due to Article 370 and Article 35A.
UlanBatori wrote:What does "own GST" mean? I thought the point of GST was One Nation One Baksheesh?
Philip wrote:We now have to do two basic things.Get down to business of governance and step up anti- terror ops.
Like bin Laden’s body, the U.S. dumps al-Baghdadi’s body in the sea. Contrast this with India’s practice of allowing public funerals for slain terrorists. This turns terrorists’ burial sites into jihadist shrines, making dead terrorists more potent than terrorists that are alive.
chetak wrote:twitterLike bin Laden’s body, the U.S. dumps al-Baghdadi’s body in the sea. Contrast this with India’s practice of allowing public funerals for slain terrorists. This turns terrorists’ burial sites into jihadist shrines, making dead terrorists more potent than terrorists that are alive.
Of course, in an ideal world, India could say f!ck off,
"As the situation at this moment (in Kashmir) is not sustainable and not good, this has to change for sure," Ms Merkel was quoted as having said by German sources.
Vikas wrote:The painful reality of life is that random people will get killed in Kashmir by terrorists. No govt can provide complete security. We need to accept it, find way to fix this and move on. As long as we can bring the number closer to zero while raising the number of pigs killed to 300-400, we are on the right track.
Yes it gives masala to lot many Paki-lovers to blame India but aren't they the same crowd which is crying hoarse over lack of telecom coverage in certain areas, consequences be damned.
Vikas wrote:Separating Jammu from KV would also localize the events of terrorism in and around Srinagar. Instead of hitting the core directly, destroy this edifice of terrorism and pseudo-secularism from the periphery.
A_Gupta wrote:The next round of “it isn’t normal”.
https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEB ... id=IN%3Aen
A_Gupta wrote:India, Germany slam nations backing terror
https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEH ... id=IN%3Aen
UlanBatori wrote:A_Gupta wrote:The next round of “it isn’t normal”.
https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEB ... id=IN%3Aen
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