ABSTRACT
A broad and fundamental consensus prevails in the Jairanu region that the state government has consistently discriminated against Jammu in favour of Kashmir. Jammu and Kashmir depends largely upon central financial assistance and loans, the highest per capita in India, to meet its budgetary expenditures. The Devolutionists accuse the pro-Integrationists of communalizing the Jammu problem, depriving the region of an effective and unified leadership, and confusing the issue of accession with integration. The Praja Parishad insisted that the moment the ruler of Kashmir signed the Instrument of Accession, which was duly accepted by the Governor-General of India, the state of Jammu and Kashmir became an integral part of India. The Praja Parishad, in its Eight-point program, had proposed that if Kashmir were to retain its special status, then Jammu and Ladakh ought to be totally integrated with the Indian federation.
