brief history.......contd

India had plans to take Kashmir from the beginning, how can one forget the last minute inclusion of Gurdaspur, a muslim majority district supposed to go to Pakistan, to the Indian union by the Radcliffe boundary commission. Following its designs for Kashmir, the Indian Government went against the UN resolutions and in 1951 carried out the first elections in kashmir. UN passed another resolution the same year to the effect that such elections could not substitute the plebiscite and reiterated that a free and fair plebiscite be held in Jammu and Kashmir. A year after elections Sheikh Abdullah defected from his position of endorsing the accession to India and insisted on the plebiscite in Kashmir. In 1953 India and Pakistan agreed on appointing a plebiscite administrator by the end of April 1954. But as I mentioned earlier India had other plans from the beginning and in August 1953 the Indian Government dismissed and detained Sheikh Abdullah. And yet again India appoints a puppet government this time headed by Bakshi Ghulam Muhammad who officially ratifies the accession to India, for which he was actually appointed. In 1956 the puppet state government adopts a constitution of the state and declares it to be an integral part of the India without any mandate from the Public. UN passed another resolution in 1957 stating such actions could not constitute a final disposition of Kashmir and reiterated a free and fair plebiscite be held. In 1964 the ailing Nehru probably realised his misdeeds released Abdullah from prison and sent him to Pakistan to solve the Kashmir issue in accordance with the wishes of kashmiris but unfortunately he passed away a month later and the talks got stalled. Sheikh Abdullah is again arrested in May 1965 after he arrives in India from Makkah. And in 1965 India and Pakistan go to their second war over Kashmir.......to be contd