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| Rajnath Singh's offer for talks leave separatists confused | | | The offer from the Union Home Minister, Rajnath Singh, on reopening of channels of dialogue with the Hurriyat leaders has left top leaders of the separatists conglomerates confused. These separatists do not know whether to hold talks with Government of India or not. They think that holding talks with the central Government would be a sign of submission for which they are not prepared because they are prepared for keeping Kashmir on the boil so that their (Separatists) relevance is understood by the Government of India. Once people get an impression, as they feel, that the separatists have started selling their honour and if this impression gains ground the separatists' call for shutdown and for starting protest rallies may not receive any response. That is their worry and once people faily to respond to their calls for shutdowns and protest rallies the relevance of the separatists is finished.
The Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) and other small Hurriyat groups are tightlipped over the recent dialogue offer from New Delhi. And ther top Hurriyat leaders when asked about their response they evaded a direct reply indicating that they are yet to decide on the issue. The leaders who spoke at the seminar avoided to speak on the dialogue offer of the Union Home Minister, Rajnath Singh. However, Hurriyat (G) spokesperson Ghulam Ahmad Gulzar has said that the JRL would "hold deliberations about the dialogue offer" and then brief the media. "It is again a matter of discussion and I can't say anything about it as of now," Gulzar said.
Meanwhile, GoI's interlocutor Dineshwar Sharma said the Home Minister Rajnath Singh was the right person to comment on the dialogue process.
"I am not in a position to say anything and we don't want to discuss everything in the media," he said. Sharma refused to comment on whether something official had started regarding the parleys between GoI and the Hurriyat.
However,, Chairman Hurriyat Conference (G) Syed Ali Geelani said the "forced occupation by Indian forces" was a sad, gloomy and unfortunate chapter of history." Our entire nation has rendered unprecedented sacrifices against this unjustified occupation. India has no moral right to use military might against legal and due rights of the subjugated people of Jammu Kashmir," he said. Well what he has stated is an old story. It does not deserve any merit for reopening of the old story. The new story is whether the Hurriyat leaders are ready to accept an offer for dialogue from the Government of India. Indications are that while the moderates may wish to accept the offer an d the hardliners may not agree indicating that the separatists are a divided lot. Once the lines of division deepens there is no need for wooing the hardliners because the moderates may set the tone for the bilateral talks between India and Pakistan. These separatists wish to receive some guidelines from Islamabad on the issue and both moderates and hardliners may accept the offer once Islamabad gives its non. |
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