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| Has GoI said goodbye to Dineshwar Sharma? | | Amid impasse, K-interlocutor 'missing' | | Early Times Report
Jammu, July 31: As the political impasse is already taking toll in Jammu and Kashmir, the pointman of New Delhi, Dineshwar Sharma, is nowhere on the scene, indicating that the Centre has said 'goodbye' to him.
For the past three months, Sharma hasn't been visiting any places in the state, neither meeting the cart pullers nor the rickshaw drivers. During his recent visit to the state last week, he met the state Governor NN Vohra as the field visits seem to have fetched no results.
On October 23 last year, former Intelligence Bureau (IB) chief Dineshwar Sharma, was appointed as the Modi government's special representative to carry forward a dialogue with all sections of the people in Jammu and Kashmir. Soon after his appointment he had said that he would ensure that "normalcy returns to the state as soon as possible."
Sharma, a 1979-batch IPS officer of the Kerala cadre, was appointed as IB Director in December 2014 for a fixed two-year term. Post-retirement, he was appointed as an interlocutor for talks with Assam-based insurgent groups. He also heads a committee to restructure the Home Ministry.
The Centre was keen on giving an extension to Sharma as IB chief, but he turned down the offer. Sharma has worked with Ajit Doval when the latter was IB chief. He headed the Subsidiary Intelligence Bureau of Uttar Pradesh when Home Minister Rajnath Singh was the Chief Minister.
Sharma, while visiting the Valley in the past eight months has met a cross section of people in the state and played a crucial role in freeing the stone pelters against whom cases related to the stone pelting were registered for the first time.
However, after six months of his appointment, the Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh admitted that Sharma's appointment as interlocutor didn't yield any desired results and hasn't changed the situation on ground.
The New Delhi based newspapers quoted Rajnath Singh admitting that measures to restore normalcy in Kashmir through initiatives like the appointment of an interlocutor have not had the desired results. Singh said the government was committed to restoring peace in Kashmir.
"If Pakistan is ready to talk why won't we talk? We want to have good relations with our neighbour. But the neighbour will have to take some initiative. Pakistan is firing at our borders, indulging in ceasefire violations. It is trying to infiltrate terrorists. It is not mending its ways. But it will have to (mend its ways) one day," Singh said in an interview.
"During Ramzan, we announced suspension of operations. But you are indulging in ceasefire violation. You don't want that our Muslim brothers and sisters in Kashmir should get an opportunity to have a peaceful Ramzan… It shows your intentions. Pakistan has no sympathy for Kashmiris. If they had any sympathy, they would have welcomed our move. This is something even the people of Kashmir should understand. Pakistan treats Kashmiris as its tools," he had said.
Now the million dollar question remains whether Dineshwar Sharma would be replaced by any new face or the truth has dawned upon the government of India that the interlocutors aren't going to douse the flames? |
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