The Young India

Kartikey Sehgal gives a step-by-step explanation to the ongoing situation in the state of J&K over the land transfer issue.

People from Jammu and Kashmir are being fooled. Not to mention countless people in India who are easily misled by passions and emotions.We meet people who think that Kashmiri’s are being selfish and not giving the land for the Amarnath pilgrimage, and then there are those who think that Jammu citizens are being selfish in taking land from Kashmir when they can do without it.

Nobody is being selfish, except the politicians, of course.

This is what I know. Hindus in Jammu and Muslims in Kashmir are protesting against the government. And people in Kashmir are asking for independence.

No. Not everyone in Kashmir is asking for freedom. It’s only a faction that supports secession of Kashmir from India.

Then what are people from Jammu and Kashmir fighting over?