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| Implications of Sonia's stand on Sri Lanka for Jammu and Kashmir | | Compromising Sovereignty | | Rustam
Jammu, Mar 21: AICC president and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi is speaking a language which doesn't suit India. It suits Pakistan and Kashmiri separatists and others who want India to whither away or disintegrate. She has taken a line on Sri Lanka similar to the one Islamabad and other anti-India and pro-separatist forces take on Kashmir. She, for example, on Tuesday called for an "independent and credible" inquiry into the alleged human rights violations in Sri Lanka. She was referring to the Tamil citizens of that country, who want a separate regime for them.
"The plight of Tamils in Sri Lanka is close to our hearts. Our support for equal rights and equal protection of the laws to them has been unwavering since the days of Indiraji and Rajivji. We are most pained at the manner in which their legitimate political rights continue to be denied to them. We are anguished by reports of unspeakable atrocities on innocent civilians and children, especially during the last days of the conflict in 2009," she bemoaned in her four-page speech made at the Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP) meeting in New Delhi. Stating that reports of atrocities (allegedly committed by) Sri Lankan Government "cannot go un-investigated", she said: "That is why we (Congress) demand for an independent and credible inquiry into the violation of human rights in Sri Lanka."
She made this comments and advocated the need for an "independent and credible" inquiry into the alleged violations of human rights in Sri Lanka at a time when the Dravidian outfit DMK of M Karunanidhi, part of the UPA Government, was threatening to pull out of the Government on the ground that New Delhi had not accepted its demand seeking a probe by some "credible" international body into the alleged violations of human rights of Sri Lankan Tamils.
What Sonia Gandhi said were not off-the-cuff remarks. She read out from a prepared statement, which clearly suggested that she said what precisely she and the party she and her son Rahul Gandhi very tightly control believed in. Did she know the implication of what she said about Sri Lanka and Sri Lankan Tamils? It is for her and her advisors to answer this pertinent question. As for this writer, he believes that she knew the implications of what she said.
It is not a secret that Pakistan and its agents in Kashmir and elsewhere are expressing identical views on Kashmir and demanding a probe into the alleged human rights violations in Kashmir. They are also demanding an independent regime for them or a regime that is acceptable to Pakistan and Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC).
It would be no exaggeration if someone says that what she said on Tuesday was a carbon-copy what Pakistan and its agents like Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Mirwaiz had repeatedly said before she spoke on the issue of Sri Lankan Tamils. The ruling NC has also been saying almost the same thing. It is a matter of grave concern that the AICC president is deliberately muddying the Indian waters in Kashmir, creating bitterness between India and Sri Lanka and directly helping Pakistan, which only on March 14 adopted a highly outrageous resolution on Jammu and Kashmir - resolution which was rejected by the Indian Parliament the very next day. It appears that there is none in the Congress party who has the guts to question the AICC president and her policy towards friendly Sri Lanka. |
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