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| Is JU again becoming a centre of anti-India intrigues? | | Controversial CDR In Jammu | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Nov 22: When VC Amitabh Mattoo left the University of Jammu many in the university and outside described his exit as a good riddance. The reason: He had converted Jammu University, the premier institution of higher learning, into a den of anti-India activities. He had inducted and promoted persons with highly doubtful credentials. His successor Varun Sawhney's exit from the university last year was also hailed by many. During his tenure and during the six-year-long tenure of his predecessor, Jammu University lost its sheen and it became an institution where mercenaries, rank opportunists and sycophants reigned supreme.
Last year, Prof M P S Ishar took over as Vice-Chancellor of Jammu University. His appointment was welcomed by many because he was a distinguished student of this university. It was then widely believed that what happened during the tenures of Mattoo and Sawhney had become a story of the past and that the University of Jammu would close its doors for the pro-separatists. The belief was well-founded.
However, yesterday, people felt shocked when they came to know that Department of Sociology, University of Jammu, collaborated with the controversial Delhi-based Centre for Dialogue and Reconciliation (CDR) of which Sushobha Bharve is the Director and organized a seminar in which controversial issues were discussed. Some of the participants in the seminar were the known sympathizers and supporters of Kashmiri separatists and protagonists of greater autonomy and self-rule, as also well-wishers of Pakistan. The organizers of the seminar did not invite those considered inconvenient for obvious reasons. What transpired during the first day of the seminar did clear the air and established that the objective of Bharve and her ilk was not pious.
What shocked the people most was the positive attitude of Prof Ishar towards the CDR. Inaugurating the controversial seminar, Prof Ishar appreciated the work done by the CDR. It appears the JU Vice-Chancellor was blissfully ignorant of the activities and views of the CDR. The CDR, it needs to be underlined, has been for years now trying to create an environment that successfully persuades New Delhi to accept the Kashmiris' demands ranging from autonomy to self-rule to demilitarization to porous borders to free economic zone to accommodation of Pakistani interests in Jammu & Kashmir and so on and adopted a number of highly controversial resolutions. The CDR is also a bitter critic of the AFSPA, and even the Indian Army and paramilitary forces. But more than that, it has never held Pakistan responsible for the rise of communalism and separatism in Kashmir. Besides, the CDR has no place whatsoever in its scheme of things for the people of Jammu and Ladakh.
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