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Milchar
October-December 2001 issue
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Viewpoint
KP at Cross Roads
... B. N. Sharga
After the much hyped Agra summit and total
neglect of the present Kashmiri Pandit organisations at all levels during
the process of talks being initiated by the government through K.C.Pant
recently to solve the Kashmir imbroglio, the members of the community are
feeling now a very strong urge to have a powerful and effective organisation
at the national level with a political thrust not only to safeguard their
interests properly but also to project their viewpoint at such crucial
moments more candidly, because the existing Kashmiri Pandit organisations
are functioning more or less like social and cultural clubs where people
come and exchange pleasantries over a cup of tea and light snacks and then
gossip under the sun on any topic right from politics to pornography, instead
of debating over the real issue confronting our community and chalking
out a proper action plan to focus the attention of the government towards
their sad plight.
All other communities in the recent years have formed their well
organised political wings and through them they pressurize the government
every now and then to fulfill their both reasonable and unreasonable demands
and quite often they succeed in their efforts, but on the contrary the
so called leaders of our community generally go into hibernation on such
crucial moments and play drawing room politics by issuing press statements
from the cozy comforts of five star hospitality then launching any mass
movement simply because they do not have any base to undertake such a venture
in absence of public support for their actions.
An effective organisation is generally built up by sustained ground
work over the years and by infusing a sense of belonging in every dedicated
grass root worker and not by collecting a few decorative pieces around
oneself. Whenever the culture of sycophancy is encouraged in any organisation,
its end becomes imminent. One should have the capacity and courage to face
the healthy criticism boldly and squarely, only then an organisation gets
the required momentum. Otherwise it becomes dead as dodo.
Our greatest predicament at the moment is that we have no functional
organisation at the all India level to coordinate the activities of various
KP organisations in the country in an effective manner by issuing them
proper guidelines from time to time and to scrutinise their performance.
At present the city level organisations decide their own policy matters
and take their own decisions on vital issues because there are no specific
guidelines for their working. This quite often results in divergent opinions
being propagated by different units on the same vital issues confronting
our community, which add further confusion in the already chaotic conditions
where no body knows as to who is the leader and who is the follower. It
seems that everybody is busy in blowing his own trumpet. The famous Urdu
poet of Lucknow Pandit Brij Narain Chakbast has very candidly expressed
such a situation in his following Urdu couplet :
Rahnumai kiski hogi
Mujhko hairat hai yehi
Kafile mein kaum ke
Sub peshwa hone ko hain
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