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| Ex-interlocutors to take up Kashmir report with new home minister | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, May 20 : The head of the panel of former interlocutors Dilip Padgounkar Tuesday said that all the three interlocutors will jointly write a letter to the new Home Minister of India and will urge him to implement the recommendations made by them with regard to Jammu and Kashmir.
Padgounkar said they are eagerly waiting who will assume the charge of Home Ministry of India. "Once India will have its new Home Minister, all the three interlocutors will sit together and would forward a letter to him with respect to our recommendations that we have made in our report about Jammu and Kashmir," he said.
He said that incumbent BJP president Rajnath Singh had once said that the report of interlocutors should have been made to public to facilitate a healthy debate on its recommendations. "BJP had formed a study group and even that group had gone to Kashmir to assess the situation on ground there.
Rajnath Singh knows everything about out recommendations and we hope that he (Rajnath Singh) will impress upon the new government of India to have a healthy debate on the report of interlocutors," Padgounkar said adding that he is hopeful that their recommendations would be implemented and before it the report would be discussed with Kashmiri leadership. "It is a positive sign that BJP's top leader agrees with most of our recommendations and we are looking forward to their implementation," he said.
Professor Radha Kumar another former interlocutor that there is no harm in meeting new Home Minister of India. She said she is optimistic. "Least Home Minister can say 'no' to us but something positive may also come out after the meeting," she said. |
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