Recod turn-our in J&K polls..

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Re: Recod turn-our in J&K polls..

@Samir_Mirchandani

why is voting in numbers not acceptance? It is a globally accepted fact that exercise of ones rights is just that - acceptance of the franchise. If you think about the psychological aspects - if someone is rejecting something they will have nothing to do with it voluntarily. Here we have them voting in great numbers. And as you point out, not just this election but in prior ones as well.

The only non-acceptance is of these facts from people who do not want to admit that Pakistan’s decades of proxy war and claims on Kashmir have been utterly defeated and rejected in Kashmir.

Franchise? If I eat at a McDonalds because that is the only place there is to eat, that doesnt mean I accept McDonalds, it means im hungry and I have no choice. Likewise, voting in Kashmir is eating from India’s trough, not because you want to but because you have to.

Voting does not necessarily equate to acceptance of a state. People vote for a number of reasons. People vote because they want to elect genuine leaders who can attend to their needs, they vote because they want perks, they vote because someone they know is running and need their support. They vote because that is their only option. In Kashmir, their is no other way to maintain the bare minimum in terms of quality of life unless you partake in the voting process. In this for example, with the BJP rearing its head, people know that if they dont vote then Hindus in Jammu will vote for them. So its obviously a complex issue, but i dont see how you can conclude that simply voting is acceptance of India. Thats neither logically sound, nor is it supported by actual facts on the ground.

The non-acceptance of that pseudo-factual declaration that Kashmiris accept India because they vote is based on what I stated above. There is no logical reason to conclude that people voting to ensure their own basic needs, are voting for India. They vote because under the circumstances its the best they can hope for. Its pragmatic acceptance of circumstance, not acceptance of India.

Pakistan’s supposed “proxy war” wouldn’t need to have started first of all, if India had done what it promised to do according to the UN accord. Intransigence and deception you see creates resentment and poisons the environment. Nor has this supposed war gone on for Decades. Its started secondary to the uprising in Occupied Kashmir itself by the Kashmiri’s themselves, following mass rigging in the 1987 elections. There has been a long history of Indians manipulating politics in Kashmir. And whatever Pakistan did or did not do does not justify the mass human rights violation commited by your army, which is documented.
Nor does it justify draconian laws passed to continue to subjugate the state.

What you believe about Kashmir is based entirely on wishful thinking on you and the part of your govt.