Statehood for Jammu Is it a chimeric vision?
“The strengthening of our statehood is at times deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism” -Vladimir Putin.
The statehood strengthening as espoused by the Russian president Vladimir Putin speaks volumes about the importance about it during times of yore and is relevant even today. Nation states have gone to war from times immemorial in their quest for claiming their rightful place in the comity of nations over the aspect of their identity /statehood. The concept of modern state is the product of complex historical processes that gave birth to a novel form of institutionalization of political power characterized by the existence of a single and legally regulated structure of political sovereignty that has undergone profound transformation due to globalization processes which in turn has radically altered the environment in which nation states operate. Coming back to the Indian subcontinent and its past legacy of struggles for state
Dogra interest sabotaged by self-styled Dogra leaders: Dr Jitendra
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KATHUA/REASI: Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh said here today that Dogra interest had been sabotaged by self-styled Dogra leaders and that those who had been for several decades hand in glove with “Gupkar” parties like Congress, PDP and National Conference (NC) in discriminating against Jammu and Dogras, were today overnight posing as the “Champions of Dogras” after they had been rejected by the same parties and the leaders around whom they had been dancing as sycophants and henchmen.
In a hard hitting speech at a public rally at Keerian-Gandyal, Dr. Jitendra Singh said, those who had been rejected by all political parties and now found acceptability nowhere, had resorted to a desperate bid to emerge as spokespersons of Dogras. He said, it is the same lot who were dancing to the tune of the Congress Party, when Pandit Prem Nath Dogra, the tallest Dogra of Jammu, was subjected to all kind of tor