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But BJP-led NDA never considered J&K a disputed region Mirwaiz, Omar urge Modi to imitate Vajpayee 7/15/2014 12:06:36 AM Neha JAMMU, July 14: APHC (M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, NC working president and J&K CM Omar Abdullah and several other Kashmiri leaders have been urging PM Narendra Modi to imitate former PM Vajpayee and resolve the so-called Kashmir issue within the parameters of "insaniyat'. They have been giving the people of Kashmir to understand that Vajpayee was interested in the resolution of the Kashmir issue as per the aspirations of the Kashmiri people. It's true that the BJP veteran had once said that the Kashmir issue needed to be resolved within the parameters of Insaniyat, but it's also true that he never explained as to what he meant by "insaniyat ke daire mein". It is difficult to endorse the Kashmiri view that Vajpayee was willing to compromise the Indian position on Jammu and Kashmir. The reason is that the former PM had rejected out of hand the NC's autonomy committee report, thus sensing a clear signal to the self-styled freedom fighters in the Valley that his Government would not reverse the process of constitutional integration which commenced after the dismissal and arrest of Sheikh Abdullah on August 9, 1953. It bears recalling that the NC Government had in 2000 adopted a resolution that asked the Union Government to grant greater autonomy to the state as it existed before August 9, 1953. The NC Government had convened a special session of the Assembly for the purpose and the Assembly discussed the autonomy report for six days. It passed the resolution with two-third majority. The state Government sent the resolution, along with the autonomy report, to the Vajpayee Government, which on July 4, 2000 rejected the report as "unacceptable". Commenting on the rejection of the autonomy committee report that was adopted by the Assembly on June 26, the then Union Home Minister L K Advani said that the said report and resolution had questioned the very process of constitutional integration post-1953, including the 42 Presidential Orders passed since then, and opined that the acceptance of the J&K Assembly resolution would mean negation of the Presidential Orders. He, in fact, termed the autonomy report and the Assembly resolution on it as illegal. In other words, the Vajpayee Government closed the autonomy chapter. If the likes of Omar Abdullah and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq believe that the Modi Government would undo all that the nation did during all these more than 66 years to integrate the state with India, then it is obvious that they are living in a fool's paradise. The BJP-led NDA Government is not going to unsettle the settled and this is clear from the statements which were made by several BJP leaders after Modi took over as the Prime Minister. Not only this, Jammu and Ladakh, besides the internally displaced Kashmiri Hindus, are very much there to counter the Kashmiri separatists and those in the NC who have been demanding autonomy, bordering on virtual sovereignty.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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