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Period of Normalcy

Peace Movements put the cart back

Bhalessa- off shooting high where the skies are thelimits. During the tumultuous days the area witnessedmigration of the people from Khaljugasar to ChambaDistrict of himachal Pradesh. The area engulfed underthe terror attacks on common hindus and muslims,Children and women, elderly and innocents. Theatrocities on the part of Indian soldiers were not less innumber. The people ware harrased and some killed bymilitants and Indian soldiers, but no human rightsOrganization seemed to probe the atrocities of thepeople of this terrain.

Bhalessa a hilly town in Bhalessa and National politicalmafia has been emerged from this fertile land. Theimmediate peace in the region might be due to theseveral indirect and direct reasons. It may be due to thewide spread of education in the area or extensivecampaign for Peace in the area.

There were and are several forces which help maintainpeace and other forces which ensure the roots of nefarious designs by the chavinsits and fundamentalist

leaders.

As far as democratic set up is concerned, some publicand scholarly circles opine that peace came owing to therepresentation of the area by Ghulam Nabi Azad in thelast regime. Azad sahib was ardent of secular valuesand envisaged the same in these backward belts.

Moreover, some NGOs at work has had initiated a massmovements to dessiminate the massage of peace in thearea. One of these NGOs is National Students Welfare

Association (NSWA) which launched “G R Azad PeaceMission” headed by Mr. Sadaket Malik and others. Theinitiative got support form all the people and otherpolitical and Non political organizations of the state.The movement was galvanized by local District andTehsil administration of Bhalessa.

On June 15,2003 a mass scale Peace rally was organized

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by the above NGO in which more then 3000 people of Bhalessa pledged to work and ensure peace andbrotherhood in this otherwise hilly hamlet which was aprey of fissiparous tendencies.

Letter of Appreciation received by Sadaket Malik fromPrincipal Govt. Degree College Bhaderwah, Sh P L Kouland SHO Police Station Gandoh

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The area revealed mobalization of youth by theinsurgency. Those who not supported the nafiriousdesigns were bound to face a bullut of gun. As is evidentfrom the assassination of Dr. Mujib-Ur-Rehman of Bhalessa who served as first research scholar of the

area from India’s Alligarh Muslim University.For the last two years, things began limping back to asemblance of 'normality' in the Doda including Bhalessa.The number of killings registered a rapid decline. Longspells of curfew were done away with. As were the armycheckpoints that had come up at every kilometer or soon the road connecting Bhalessa with Doda and Jammu.

There were of course so called peoples leaders over

here before, but till date the youth activists tried theirlevel best to eliminate the empty slogans perpetuatedby them. They had zikr-e khuda (the name of God) ontheir lips, but their hearts were empty of fikr-e khuda(remembrance of God”).But at the same time as communal identities havebecome increasingly polarised, large numbers of Hindusand Muslims still privately insist on the need for cordial

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relations and do their own bit in that regard in their ownways: Jointly demonstrating against the slaughter of innocent villagers in a remote village,

Besides walls of suspicion strong ties bind other Hindusand Muslims and have halted the complete polarisationof the populace. This is something that I've beenattempting to study since long. A township well knittedby historical kalgoni temple managed by SanathanDharam Sabha Bhalessa. The people in community socialwork, Aman Committees of hindu and Muslim populacepresents a very interesting picture and reveal themassage of brotherhood. Kalgoni Temple nestled withvillage Kilhotran is located on the Kalgoni stream inBhalessa. The stream is paviter in the sense that the

devotees of all areas of the erstwhile dirstrict visitDharamshalla of the Kalgoni in this improvised area of the state.

The temple organize an annual festivals like of Baisakhi,Navratra, Dussehra, Holi, Deepawali as a Joint ventureprogramme felicitated by both thePeople are busy in pooling resources to rescue peopletrapped in an avalanche or injured in a road mishaps, orsimply pointing out that true religion teaches love andthat, as the tired clichés go, 'God is one' and 'Everyone's

blood is red.Bhalessa terrain surrounded by Mosques, Temples;ancient Hindu places DURGA MATA CAVE in Khaljugasar,and MEHLWAAR, Kalgoni Temple and Jamia Masid’s arerealy a great mortars for cementing this age oldtradition of living with peace and botherhood. A fair isheld at Kalgoni Temple in the month of Bishakhi wherethe local Muslims and Hindus celebrate the same as acommon venture. Holy places could be promoted toconduct the tourists to historical places like KalgoniTemple as well as in other village temples.Jamia Masjid

Changa and Kalgoni temple are historical one, The tiesbetween two communities has had maintained owing tosuch monumental holy places of hindus and muslims.The Markzi jamia Masjid is managed by BhalessaTameeri Committee while as Kalgoni Temple is excutedby Sanathan Dharam Sabha. Here is an Aman Committeeaims at creating peaceful environment in the terrain.The committee has played a key role during termoil.

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Both the communities pledged to live and protect onean other from nefarious designs.

There are secular hindu leaders, as well as secularmuslim leaders who represent their own communities in

line with the religious guidelines. On the eve of ID,Deepawali, Holi, Ramadan people are hosting functionfor each other. It will be wrong for my efforts if will notmention here the names of secular epitomes of Bhalessa.I mention here names of respectable front runners of

hindu muslim unity which include Neel Kanth Parihar,Alhaj Mir Munwar Din, Ghulam Mustafa Azad AlhajGhulam Hussain Bhall, Alhaj Mohd. Din Mir, Alhaj Mohd.Shrief Mir, Mohd. Shafi Matoo, Alhaj Gul Mohd. Mir,Ghulam Hussain Malik, Ghulam Nabi Ahangar, Ghulam

Rasool Chogani, Daleep Singh Parihar (President of Sanathan Dharam Sabha) Sh. Amar Chand (BJP Leader),Abdul Kareem Rather, Ch. Abdul Quyoom, Charanjeet LalKotwal, Kiker singh Manhas

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