Letter to the Editor – RSS chief on Kashmir, Response to Soz

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Sir,
This refers to the news item Soz says Bhagwat was daydreaming etc. (DE Oct 4). According to Soz, the RSS Chief has not understood the people of Kashmir. By people, he means the Muslims whom he gives credit for fighting the Uighurs (Mughals), Pathans, Sikhs and Dogras. Soz’s knowledge of Kashmir is incomplete or he is deliberately avoiding being honest. He does not explain against whom the Kashmiris were fighting or not fighting during the Sultanate of Shahmiris, Baihaqis, Uighurs ( Haider Dughla) and Chaks?

The Kashmiri Muslims, of course, fought against the Dogra autocracy, and after removing it in Oct 1947, they invited Indians to “rule over them”. Soz himself left the indigenous local political party that led Quit Kashmir movement in 1946, and joined the national party (Congress) to consolidate the Indian rule over Kashmir. He became the blue-eyed boy of Hindu majority nationalist party namely the Congress.

Now, for the last seventy years and more, they are fighting the Indian establishment (saviours of 1947 Pakistani attack) with arms, ammunition and logistics generously supplied by Pakistan to “liberate” them from the “Indian yoke” and put the Pakistani yoke on their necks.

As prospects for that appear dim, their self-seeking leaders, after bef
ooling them for three-quarter of a century by playing the religious card, are now pointing them to China as their “liberator”. A step further, they have begun to pin full hope in the Taliban of Afghanistan to march in drones all the way to Kashmir valley where the Kashmiris are waiting to play host to them as they had played to the Hizb and many others including Daesh, and now IS-K. Soz would better recollect this profound Urdu verse of Mirza Ghalib:

jata hun thodi dur har ik rahrav ke sath

pahchanta nahinhun abhirahbar komain.

Soz has to decide who is frustrated, he or Mohan Bhagwat?
K N Pandita