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| Radha frightens India, says "could lose Kashmir in 10 years" | | It's day dreaming | | ET Report
JAMMU, Nov 30: Radha Kumar, former interlocutor for Jammu & Kashmir, on Sunday frightened India, saying it could lose Kashmir if failed to take appropriate steps to retrieve the fast-deteriorating situation in Kashmir. "The situation in Kashmir has progressively deteriorated," she said. "It hasn't been as bad as this in a long time," Radha said at the opening session on "Kashmir Today: Towards an Indian Future?" during the second day of Times LitFest in New Delhi. "The Government doesn't seem to be working, and little of the common minimum program has been implemented," she, inter-alia said, adding that "New Delhi could lose Kashmir in the next decade if serious efforts were not made to resolve the lingering dispute".
The only time there has been any forward movement in Kashmir is when both Pakistan and the Kashmiris have been involved in negotiations. This was the case when General Musharraf was in office in Pakistan. There were civil society discussions between Indian and Kashmiris, through the back channel, and this put pressure on Gen. Musharraf," also said Radha.
It was clear from what she said that she wanted New Delhi to engage with Pakistan and Kashmiri separatists and agree to a solution that is acceptable to the anti-national forces. She has no place in her scheme of things for the non-Kashmiri people, who constitute majority and who also occupy almost 90 per cent of the State's geographical area. She is all for Pakistan and Kashmiri separatists and wants New Delhi to walk an extra mile to help resolve the issue as per the wishes of Kashmiri Muslims.
Dilip Padgaonkar, Radha Kumar and MM Ansari were appointed interlocutors for the State by the UPA Government in October 2010 in the wake of rise of stone-pelters in the Valley and about 100 deaths which took place in Kashmir during the summer protests. In Kashmir University the same month, Radha had told some students that the "interlocutors would persuade the Union Government to amend the Indian Constitution to accommodate the Azadi demand". Padgaonkar had asked the Kashmir University students to prepare a "roadmap of Azadi", which the interlocutors would discuss with them during their next visit to Kashmir. They submitted their dangerous report in October 2011 and it, among other things, suggested that Article 370 be made a permanent feature of the Constitution and withdrawal of AFSPA. The report was divisive and Kashmir-centric.
The suggestion of Radha that India could lose Kashmir in next ten years is obnoxious. Indian nation is not that weak that it will allow Kashmir to secede. Then, our army and paramilitary forces are there to take care of those who have been working to get Jammu & Kashmir segregated from India. The nation has invested so much in Kashmir in terms of men and money and it will see to it that the anti-nationals in the Valley are isolated and decimated. |
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