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| Who is funding CDR, mercenaries? | | J&K: Multiple-Stakeholders | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 14: The controversial Delhi-based non-Governmental organization, Centre for Dialogue and Reconciliation (CDR), whose director is one lady called Sushobha Barve, today started a three-day-long discussion on cross-Line of Control Civil Society Discussion in Jammu at Hotel Fortune Inn Riviera. About 70 persons, including from Pakistan- occupied-Kashmir and certain selected persons from different parts of the State, mostly those who want New Delhi to let Jammu and Kashmir go out of the Constitutional organization of India so that the "regressive" Kashmiri leadership is able to establish a particular system of governance that suits separatists, fundamentalists, and even the aggressor Pakistan, will participate in the discussion. This will be the CDR's 15 initiative that is calculated to create an environment that helps the pro-separatist and fundamentalist forces in Kashmir to achieve what they have so far failed to achieve and jeopardize the paramount national interests in Jammu and Kashmir.
That the objective of the CDR is ulterior, and not noble, could be seen from the themes of the discussion. The themes of the discussion or whatever one may calls it include "Multiple Stake-Holders": "Multiple Dialogues", "Conflict and Displaced People", "Trade and Economic Revival" and "Building Bridges Through Culture".
No one would oppose discussion on trade and economic revival and building bridges through culture, although these are not easily achievable goals considering the nature of the State and its demographic profile as well as several irreconcilable contradictions between the people of the three distinct regions of the State, besides the historical legacy or historical antagonism between the Muslims of Kashmir and non-Kashmiri Muslims, including Muslims of Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan region.
But no well-wisher and friend of India and the one who believes in democracy and secular values would appreciate any discussion on such mischievous and sinister themes as "Multiple Stakeholders". The reason is simple: There is only one stakeholder in Jammu and Kashmir and that is India and the Indian nation. There cannot be more than one stakeholder in any country as far as its unity and sovereignty is concerned. Even otherwise, no same person would like to give legitimacy to anyone who questions the Indian sovereignty in Jammu and Kashmir and demands its separation on the ground that he/she belongs to a particular religious denomination and that he/she cannot co-exist with others having different religious denomination.
Yes, there are always stakeholders in any State or any country as far as governance is concerned. You cannot have a system of governance that is not all-inclusive. If the system allows itself to be guided, dominated and exploited by one and excludes others, then the only consequence will be an uncontrollable revolt and it is hardly necessary to tell what it would mean. As for Jammu and Kashmir, there exists a system that is not all-inclusive; it's patently Valley and one-sect-centric. That's the reason there exists inter-regional animosities and bitterness of extreme nature; that's the reason the people of Ladakh want Union Territory status and free flow of the Indian Constitution, minus Article 370, in their region that's the reason very many people of Jammu Pradesh want segregation from Kashmir so that they are able to manage their own affairs themselves within India and under the Indian Constitution. Remember the people of Jammu and Ladakh constitute almost half of the State's population and more than 88 per cent of the State's land areas. This is the issue that calls for immediate discussion and resolution. It is only the mercenaries who play sinister games to mint easy money.
It is for those who run and control the CDR to make their position clear. Besides, they have also to disclose who have been funding them; who have been paying for the board and lodging of participants in the seminars they organize and who have been meeting the travel expenses of the participants. It is not an ordinary thing to organize a three-day-long seminar in a hotel like Hotel Inn Riviera; It is indeed a very, very costly affair. They have to disclose the source/sources of huge funding. The CDR just cannot afford to organize such big and costly events. Is it Pakistan and Inter-Service Intelligence who are funding the CDR? Or, is it the Government of India or some Indian intelligence agency who are funding what could be legitimately termed anti-national and pro-separatist events? |
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