“J&K Membership with India Definitive and Complete”: Union Minister Jitendra Singh (FILE)
New Delhi:
Affirming that Jammu and Kashmir’s accession to India was final and complete, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said on Sunday that former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was responsible for the delay in the integration of the old state.
<< If there was a delay of more than two months, it was not because of Maharaja Hari Singh but because of the Prime Minister of the time Nehru who had not come in his approach and was rather guided through the signals and contributions of Sheikh Abdullah (former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir), ”said Mr. Singh, Minister of State for Personnel.
He said that while the country’s Prime Minister of the Interior, Sardar Patel, had a free hand to manage the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir just as he looked after the other princely states of undivided India , not only would the history of the Indian subcontinent have been different, but the accession of the state would also have taken place much earlier.
“The part of Jammu and Kashmir currently under illegal occupation by Pakistan, as PoJK, would also have been part of independent India,” the minister told PTI.
He added that history has been unfair to Maharaja Hari Singh and hoped that in today’s new environment, the facts will be cleared up and all misgivings dispelled for the benefit of future generations.
The minister said historians must wonder why Prime Minister Nehru violated democratic conventions by interfering in the domain of his own interior minister, Sardar Patel.
“To put things straight, it was actually Sardar Patel’s intervention in the end that facilitated the landing of Indian forces in Srinagar and saved the rest of the state from occupation by Pakistan,” said Mr. Singh, a Lok Sabha. Member of Parliament for Udhampur Constituency in Jammu and Kashmir.
He claimed that the prime minister at the time had chosen roundabout talks with Abdullah rather than a free and frank discussion with Maharaja Hari Singh, who was at the time the legitimate and official head of the princely state of Jammu. and-Kashmir.
The minister said that the draft instrument of accession signed by Maharaja Hari Singh was the same as that signed by heads of other princely states, without any conditions or conditions.
“Articles 370 and 35-A were anomalous additions that came later after Hari Singh left the throne,” Singh said.
The instrument of accession was signed on October 26, 1947 between Maharaja Hari Singh, then ruler of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, and the Indian government to accede to J-K in independent India.
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