was that meant to be a secret, or an open secret? why reveal such a thing? (Indian agencies paying separatists; & for what benefits?)
Even I was stumped as to why he revealed it in such a casual fashion. From the day I saw this video, I began thinking all anti-India forces like NC, PDP aren't really anti India but just India's version of offering a different 'flavor' of politics to attract the outliers to the mainstream, for starters.
I was in the local train yesterday, overheard a loud conversation where a marketing guy was discussing how chips companies like Balaji, Haldiram experiment with various flavors in small quantities to test market acceptance. Want different flavor? they acquire a small company and use it to test new flavor and see public response to the different flavor (if the public likes it then the new company is dissolved and the parent company officially releases that new flavor as its own). Want more quantity? they acquire some small time local (laghu udyog type) companies to use them as production bases to satisfy the quantity hungry population, without actually putting their own branding on it. It allows the established brand to experiment with more quantity, while keeping their name (vanity) off it and offering predatory pricing to pull their other competitors down. So if Haldiram offers 25gm chips for 10 rupees and Balaji offers the same, then Haldiram buys a small company and offers 50gm at 10 rupees in all areas where Balaji has a market hold. Slowly people begin switching to the new chips due to quantity. Once Balaji faces a loss and their influence erodes from that area and it starts giving pink slips to their area managers, then Haldiram removes the local brand it had covertly been using and replaces it with Haldiram chips and back to selling 25gm at 10 rupees, now people have no option, neither local brand nor Balaji, so they buy Haldiram.
Seems India is doing something like that in Kashmir. If many people think that Burhan Wani is a martyr, then the intel agencies float a party which says exactly that, to attract those people. Once this party grows, they slowly change the narrative, at the same time keep funding new 'startup parties' to prop them up to challenge this old party to make sure that the old party doesn't capture all of market share in Kashmir.
Just see the historic pattern in Kashmir, first India propped up the Abdullah family to be the voice of Muslims and slowly got pro-India concessions out of him when he was the puppet leader, but as soon as he grew too big and started demanding more, the intel agencies cultivated PDP to challenge Abdullahs, so Abdullahs had a limited wriggling room to blackmail India, for fear of India propping up PDP. At the same time, our intel agencies encouraged PDP to label Abdullahs as a traitor to the Muslim cause and declare themselves as the pro-Islamist alternative to Abdullahs.
This does three things, first, India gets to wash its hands clean, we can say to the Kashmiris that if your own leader chosen by you has become pro-India then what can we do? second, we can say, if this 'flavor' of is not good enough for you, we have a more Islamist flavor called PDP, you can vote them. Thirdly, we get to divide anti-India opinion into various nuances instead of the monolithic/binary of US Kashmiris VS THEM INDIANS. Now it becomes US PDP fans vs THEM NC fans vs THEM BJP fans VS THEM Sajjad Lone fans VS THEM Congress fans VS THEM CPI fans. Pick and choose your flavor. Any flavor is good enough for us from a nationalist point of view because there is no Kashmiri vs non-Kashmiri binary here.
So people vote their nuanced flavor, and now that PDP is in power, India is propping up Sajjad Lone to challenge PDP. This cycle happens every generation and in every generation, the collaborators who join us become rich, including their party men, who get good postings, their children get good colleges and jobs in mainland India or phoren. Once they have tasted the upper middle class life, they are unlikely to go back, now it's time to share the bounty with newer leaders. It's the tactical equivalent of taking them out of the fight. So every generation a revelation is deliberately made by Indian agencies about the dubious loyalty of the main Islamist party in the valley, to create division of votes towards the newer more abrasive party so the previous party retains the opportunists who have tasted money and the hardcore jihadis move towards a new party, some of them taste money there, and the number of jihadis is further reduced, the remaining ones move on to new party, this filtration is going on since 1947. They face attrition at every generation. That is how we have brought down the anti-India sentiment. Offer various flavors, draw them in, then once they are in, dissolve the previous brand and bring the sheep to merge them with the parent brand of a mainstream national party.
This seems to be the most logical explanation to why Geelani is not assassinated, rather given state protection and protective custody. He is the brand ambassadors of one of our 'flavors'. Just realized that my mom did this to me when I was a kid. Instead of asking
do you want to drink milk or not, she would ask,
do you want chocolate flavored milk or strawberry flavored milk. I hated strawberry so I chose chocolate. When I got bored of chocolate, I was offered other options like malt flavor, then baadam flavor and what not. This went on until the day I outgrew the flavored milk drinking age, and voluntarily took up whatever the other grown ups were drinking (tea/coffee) and became part of the mainstream without having to be pampered anymore. Eventually, the end result was getting milk into my stomach while giving me the illusion of choice until I outgrew those false choices and voluntarily started liking milk.
That's our Kashmir policy, in short.
