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| Talks between Centre & APHC In Jammu, Vakil accords legitimacy to terrorists, separatists | | | Rustam
JAMMU, Jan 3: There appears to be a consensus between the faction led by JKPCC president Saif-ud-Din Soz and the one led by Union Health Minister and former J&K Chief Minister and JKPCC chief Ghulam Nabi Azad as far as the relevance and importance of the separatist, sectarian and essentially pro-Pakistan Huriyat leaders in Jammu and Kashmir is concerned. Both factions consider the Hurriyat leaders an important factor in the political situation of the state and both want them and the Centre to sit together and work out a solution that serves the interests of "people of Kashmir". How else should one describe what AICC member and former Minister in the Ghulam Nabi Azad-led Government, Abdul Gani Vakil, said yesterday in the presence of other Congress leaders, including former Cabinet Minister and MLC Jugal Kishore Sharma, while addressing party workers in Gandhi Nagar.
Vakil, among other things, including his plea to the state Government to fulfill the commitments made with the people of the State and to tackle corruption, said: "Hurriyat leaders…must come forward and hold a dialogue with Centre in order to defeat evil designs of those trying to deprive people of development and prosperity for their vested interests…Irrespective of the outcome of dialogue the Hurriyat leaders must talk to Centre which will at least set the process rolling which, in turn, will be in the larger interest of people of Kashmir".
While appealing to the Hurriyat leaders and others of their ilk, who have been responsible for the orgy of death and destruction in the State as well as exodus of Kashmiri Hindus from the Valley, conveniently overlooked the fact that the Hurriyat leaders are interested solely in the State's separation from India and in the Taliban-type system of governance and not in the development and prosperity of the people. Hurriyat leaders and even the Kashmir-based "mainstream" leaders have repeatedly said that nature of Kashmir problem is not economic but "political" (read patently communal) and that neither employment packages nor financial packages will end the unrest in the Valley. So much so, even Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister and NC working president Omar Abdullah had expressed similar views in the presence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and AICC president and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi some three years ago and demaned "political solution to the political problem". Vakil knew it fully well and yet he said what he said with Jammu-based Congress leaders and hardcore supporters of Ghulam Nabi Azad like Jugal Kishore Sharma becoming a party to what Vakil said to promote the cause of Kashmiri separatists and terrorists.
Only on December 29, JKPCC president Saif-ud-Din Soz had urged the Hurriyat leaders to talk to the Indian Prime Minister in order to break the deadlock on Kashmir. He had said: "Now that the Hurriyat leaders have returned from Pakistan they should enter into a dialogue at the highest level. Since they have talked to Prime Minister in the past it would be very good if they restart this stalled process. This would come as a relief to the people and hopefully some breakthrough is made vis-à-vis Kashmir issue".
There was no fundamental difference between what Soz said in Srinagar on December 29 within the premises of Congress headquarters and what Vakil said in Jammu. In fact, both appeared to be on the same page. But more than that, this convergence between the Soz and the Azad camps indicates the direction the Congress leadership in the State is heading towards. The Congress would suffer irreparable damage in Jammu province and elsewhere in the country if it continues to adopt the line the Soz camp and the Azad camp have started adopting under whatever reasons. |
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