Modi-Nehru
Indian liberals assume that Kashmir was not simmering before Modi. We would like to remind them that our fight is not against Modi alone.
As state-subjects of Jammu & Kashmir, we place on record our rejection of the ill-conceived designs of Narendra Modi and Amit Shah. The Indian government has arrested our leaders, curbed dissent and disregarded the democratic will of the Kashmiris. No permanent resident of the erstwhile state of Jammu & Kashmir is satisfied with the decision to bifurcate us. Ladakh has been left without a legislature, robbed of any representation. Kashmir has always been against any interference with Article 370 and even Jammu is agitated for being robbed of land and employment protections.
The Modi government feels that if they succeed in winning over any one section of the erstwhile state of Jammu & Kashmir, the new arrangement will be accepted. So the Indian Government is trying to purchase the loyalty of Kashmiris by throwing money at us. They have announced a budget of INR 6000 crore (USD 800 Million) for Ladakh. Ladakh has a population of 2.6 lakh people. This budget is nearly INR 3 Lakh per adult or INR 10 Lakh per family.
This reminds us of Nehru and his attempt to buy the Kashmiri sentiment in 1954. Nehru arrested our leaders, curbed dissent and disregarded the democratic will of Kashmiris. In order to buy our sentiment and make us think that India was a land of abundance, he increased ration by 25% and subsidised rice by 60% in Kashmir- all this while Indians were dying of hunger, malnutrition and living in poverty. Within 10 years of doing this, Nehru realised that the Kashmiris could not be bought. He released our leaders to negotiate a final settlement on Kashmir, but he died soon after and no solution was possible.
We remind Narendra Damodardas Modi that wounds inflicted by deceit cannot be healed by politically motivated largess and financial incentives.
We reject your budget. We reject your government. We reject you.
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