The Change in command.
v Background: -
It has been a year since the dilution of Article 370
and Kashmir has been made a union territory and the Modi Government has made a
new move by changing the LG (Lieutenant governor) of Kashmir, but The people
are thinking that what is new because only the man has been changed and still
all the things will be controlled by the home ministry in Delhi as it is always
done, but there is a big difference and the difference is that this new LG is a
Politician. Kashmir has a peculiar history and since 1947 it is only for 14
months as yet that Kashmir has had a full time politician as Governor and that
was as recently as in 2018 and 2019 that was Satyapal malik who was governor
for only 14 months and then as status changed to LG for few months but he then
came back to India and now he serving as the CM of Goa since October 2019 and
then GC Murmu (a civil servant) was made LG who has now resigned exactly one
year after abolition of Article 370. If we go back to history of Kashmir since
1947 it is quite amazing that how a politician has not been given the charge of
Kashmir whether there had been an elected Government in Kashmir or not. The million-dollar
question here is that why Kashmir has not been handled well since 1947? It is
because no Indian central leader has been chosen to handle it and always the
agencies and bureaucracy had been involved in controlling it. This all is
because Kashmir has never been treated in political way. India has always seen
Kashmir as military issue, intelligence issue, India -Pakistan issue or
Territorial issue and politicians whether people like or not but they are
flexible which is opposite in case of military or bureaucracy as the have moral
integrity and they are trained like this.
v The new LG: -
Manoj Sinha was born in 1959 in Ghazipur, UP. He is an
M.Tech in civil engineering from the
institute of Technology ,BHU . In 1982 while was just 23 Sinha stepped into
politics by becoming the president of the student’s union at BHU.In 1996 he
made his big political leap by joining BJP and winning his first LOK Sabha poll
from his Ghazipur constituency.The “ vikas Purush” of Ghazipur repeated his win
in 1999 and won the seat third time in 2014. He served as Minister of state for
Railways and Minister of state for communication during the Modi Government.
After the BJP won UP Elections in 2017 Sinha was seen as the Modi’s pick for CM
but je Lost to RSS choice Yogi Adityanath. He lost the 2019 Lok sabha seat to
BSP’S Afzal Ansari. Now the interesting thing here is that Sinha is very close
to Modi and has great ties with him and it it seems that this post of LG has
been given to Sinha as compensatory post due to his defeat at CM elections and
2019 elections defeat. With Sinha’s appointment it would mean a political touch
and a closer watch ON J&K by PM Modi and many believe that Sinha might stir
the political wind in J&K after a troubled year post the dilution of
article 370. Will Manoj Sinha prove to be political Game changer in the
tumultuous Valley????
