Kashmir Valley’s problems are not economic in nature at all

Abstract

Liberals are offering arguments for Kashmir’s alienation that do not accord with fact: if poll rigging was the problem, Bihar should have turned separatist earlier than Kashmir. It is fashionable for bleeding heart liberals (BHL) to offer unsubstantiated arguments on behalf of the militants of Kashmir Valley. Lumpen liberals like that one book wonder Arundhati Roy (who proudly proclaimed in the US two years ago that she had seceded from India since India was not a democracy) need not bother us here. But when other BHLs talk about hurt aspirations of the people of Kashmir, we need to sit back and wonder what is happening. Why are Kashmiris hurt? According to the BHLs, the first reason is that polls were often rigged in J&K (not just in K). This argument is specious because in that case the first candidate to secede from India should be Bihar where polls have been rigged from time immemorial. Or Bengal, for that matter. Jyoti Basu could not have lost his Baranagar seat but for rigging by Siddhartha Shankar Ray’s Juba Congress boys. Now, in every poll, the CPM repays that compliment. Read more at: https://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/report-kashmir-valley-s-problems-are-not-economic-in-nature-at-all-1431123