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| Former interlocutor Radha displeased with Centre | | Tripartite Talks | | Neha
JAMMU, Dec 21: Former interlocutor for Jammu and Kashmir Radha Kumar is not happy with the Union Government. Her grouse against the Home Ministry is that it has not taken an appropriate action on the report she and her two other colleagues Dilip Padgaonkar and MM Ansari submitted to the Union Home Minister on October 12, 2011. She reportedly said the other day that the former interlocutors would take up the issue with the Government of India after the winter session of Parliament was over. She also hailed the ongoing discussions on Jammu and Kashmir in Pakistan between Hurriyat leaders like Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Pakistani authorities, besides leaders of opposition parties. "Let us hope that the visit of Hurriyat (M) yield results and peace process is back on track," she has been quoted as saying. (Padgaonkar and Radha submitted the feedback report to the Government some three months ago after meeting certain selected people in the State.) Radha has, according to a report in a Kashmir-based English language daily, also disclosed that the former interlocutors had in their "feedback report" to the Government of India recommended "revival of 2004-2007 model of dialogue between Hurriyat (M) and both countries - India and Pakistan".
If one goes by the media report, and there is no reason why one should not go by it, then it can be said without any hesitation that the former interlocutors consider the Hurriyat leadership the sole representative of the people of the State and that they believe that fulfilling the separatist and sectarian urges of the Hurriyat leaders would be the same as meeting the aspirations of the State's entire population, including people of Jammu province and Ladakh region, who, everyone knows, are intensely pro-India -- a fact which even the former interlocutors themselves recognized in their report while discussing the diversity in the State or while cataloguing the contradictions in the political perceptions of the people of the State's three distinct regions.
The report had, it bears recalling, among other things, recommended a mechanism that would convert temporary Article 370 into a permanent feature of the Indian Constitution, allow the State to go out of the Constitutional framework of India, tripartite talks between Kashmiri secessionists and Governments of India and Pakistan, reduction in the number troops in the State in general and Kashmir valley in particular, withdrawal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act and regional councils within the proposed autonomous Jammu and Kashmir State.
It would not be out of place to mention here that the interlocutors' report had evoked a very strong reaction from Jammu and elsewhere. The BJP at the State and Central levels had rejected the report outrightly and taken on the former interlocutors. In fact, the BJP had made it a national issue and organized seminars on the report and the recommendations and suggestions it contained in almost all the major towns across the country and made it abundantly clear that the party will not allow the Government of India to reverse the integration process. Interestingly, even the Kashmiri separatists, who had refused to meet the interlocutors, and Kashmiri commentators and the so-called civil society members had rejected out of hand their report, saying it did not address the main issue. The NC had commended to an extent the interlocutors and their suggestions. The PDP had adopted a very cautious approach. This is the report Radha and her former colleagues want the Government to take appropriate action on ignoring the fact that the acceptance and implementation of its recommendations and suggestions would provoke explosions in Jammu and other parts of the State and further complicate the already rather complex situation. |
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