Karanvir Gupta 35 years ago, Jammu chose to remain silent in the national interest and willingly shared space and resources with the fellow brethren post the gory exodus of our Kashmiri Hindus. Not even once did Jammu cry foul or in exasperation as they saw their social milieu being diluted. We knew the need of the hour.
But it is also no myth that 15 years ago, People of Jammu started finding their homes outside Jammu fearing the very same exodus. There was an undercurrent of infiltrators grabbing the prime real estate on all the exit points of Jammu. Overnight, there were mosques at the prime spots in the city, peers at the places where no human existed at all.
The land, homes, and flats were being bought by Muslims with the intent of replicating the 90s but in Jammu this time. Thanks to BJP that came in power and saved us our homes. But the relief was just temporary.
The suppression of People of Jammu continues to happen; if not at the behest of our “neighbourhood-friendly” political parties but at the hands of the insolent administration and administrative policies post Abrogation of Article 370 and J&K becoming a UT. The list is endless, the suppression is for real and the pain is unprecedented. Let’s take a look at what’s choking Jammu and the Dogras.
To begin with, the core objective of abrogation of Article 370 was to make Kashmir part of the mainstream India and Indian constitution so that no two sets of rules governed a sovereign part of the country within t.