Thinking of Bakshi and expectation of sheikh -1951

      

Bashki never died rather have been inside every so called leaders of Kashmir till now?

 

   

     After outlining Kashmirs & his own grievances against the government of India, he said a time will, therefore, come when I will bid them good-bye. On 10th July, 1953 he addressed party workers at Mujahid Manzil, the headquarter of the National Conference in Srinagar;

   The sheikh’s turnabout greatly alarmed the Prime Minister Nehru. By now the government of Kashmir was divided within itself, its members (as Nehru observed), liable to pull in different directions & proclaim entirely different policies. In the nick of time, there was an open rift within the National Conference between the pro-India & pro-independence groups. The latter were led by the Sheikh's close associate Mirza Afzal Beg. The former were in close touch with the Sadr-i-Riyasat, Karan Singh. It was rumored that Sheikh Abdullah would declare independence on 21 August- the day of the great Eid festival-following which he would seek the protection of the United Nations against Indian aggression. Two weeks before that date, Sheikh dismissed a member of his Cabinet. This gave the others in the pro-india faction an excuse to move against him.

The stage was set and the corrupted stooge was ready to takeover sheikh , Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad and some purchasing members  they wrote the Sheikh a letter accusing him of encouraging sectarianism & corruption. A copy was also sent to Karan Singh. He, in turn, dismissed Abdullah & invited Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed to form a government in his place.

This was in good part the work of the government of India’s Intelligence Bureau. Officers of the Bureau had been working within the National conference, dividing the leadership & confusing the ranks some leaders, such as G.M. Sadiq, were left-wing anti-Americans; they disapproved of the Sheikhs talks with Stevenson. Others, like Bakshi Gulam Mohammad, had ambitions of ruling Kashmir themselves.

The Sheikh was served his walking papers in the early hours of the morning. When he was woken up & handed the letter of dismissal, the Sheikh flew into a rage

The police told him that he was not just dismissed, but also placed under arrest. He was given two hours to say his prayers & pack his belongings before being taken off to jail. The way the Sheikh was humiliated in the dead of the night, is widely believed as an impending insult to the entire Kashmir by the people over there. Karan Singh later recalled that this done because Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad made it clear that he could not undertake to run the government if the Sheikh & the Beg were left free to propagate their view.

According to the Chief of Intelligence, it was Nehru who sanctioned the arrest of his friend Sheikh Abdullah. His one-time friend behind bars, Nehru installed the next notable down in the National Conference, Bakshi Gulam Mohammed, in his place and to curb the anguish of Abdullah's supporter Patila regiment were deployed in main villages, city and towns, the . Having secured the region, Nehru the prime mover made short work of all three,

   

In 1956, the National Conference, led by a Congress favorite, Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed, adopted a constitution without any reference to a referendum and pushed ahead with the integration of Jammu and Kashmir into the Indian Union under that Article 370 which has remained the linchpin of India’s defense of its governance in Kashmir. India had come to believe that it had fulfilled its pledge to ascertain the will of the people through state elections rather than referendum. But intervention from New Delhi, working through its influence on the National Conference, fudged the NCs distinction from the state Congress party and Congress ideology even as it eroded the basis of Article 370. The NC leaders it used were often corrupt, dictatorial, conscious of their political dependence on New Delhi, and hence willing to accept and assist the growing interventions of central government. This pattern  so catastrophic after 1987  has a long pedigree.

Brutal and corrupt, Bakshis regime  widely known as BBC: the Bakshi Brothers Corporation  depended entirely on the Indian security apparatus. Bakshi?s reputation had become a liability to Delhi, and he was summarily ousted in turn, to be replaced after a short interval by another National Conference inefficient leader, this time a renegade communist, G.M. Sadiq, whose no less repressive regime proceeded to wind up the party altogether, dissolving it into Congress.