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| After Chidambaram, Soz pitches for dialogue with separatists | | Solution must be acceptable to Jammu, Ladakh also | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Oct 17: Former Union Minister and JKPCC president Saif-ud-Din Soz has trained his guns at J&K Governor Satya Pal Malik and said that "for durable solution to the 'Kashmir dispute' a "purposeful dialogue' needs to be held with Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Yasin Malik, the persons that have appeared on the scene representing the anger in the mind of Kashmiris, particularly the youth".
What has irked Soz was the statement of Governor Satya Pal Malik that "Kashmiris could not ask for anything more than the constituent assembly with a flag of their own". "This is a clear misreading of the present situation in Kashmir," Soz said, adding that he would like to remind the Governor that "many crucial decisions of the constituent assembly had been subverted by the Union and the Delhi Agreement of 1952 was also wrecked by the Union, over a long period of times, till today".
Soz didn't pinpoint as to which decisions of the constituent assembly were subverted by the Union. There is not a single law that the Government of India applied to J&K against the will of the state or without the consent of the state government. Even the autonomy committee report, produced by the NC in 2000, candidly and clearly acknowledged that "all the central laws were applied to the state with the concurrence of the successive governments in the state".
Early, late DD Thakur's report had said that "the needles of the clock can't be turned back as the central laws had benefited the state and its people". The most striking aspect of the whole situation was that Late Sheikh Abdullah had accepted DD Thakur's report and allowed New Delhi to apply some more Central laws to the state. Not just this, the Sheikh had rejected the report of GM Shah and GN Kochak, which had recommended wholesale withdrawal of the Central laws and Central institutions from the state. GM Shah was his son-in-law.
Soz pitches for a dialogue with Geelani, Mirwaiz and Malik. Who do they represent? They do not represent Jammu. They do not represent Ladakh and they also do not even represent Baramulla's Uri, Kupawara and Handwara and parts of Bandipora, where the people rejected their poll boycott call and participated in large numbers in the just-concluded electoral exercise organized to elect new municipalities after a long gap of 13 years. In Jammu and Ladakh, almost 70 per cent electorate exercised their right to vote.
On Sunday, former Union Home Minister P Chidambaram had termed the Narendra Modi government's Kashmir policy bad and vouched for a dialogue with Kashmiris. He, like Soz, had given everyone to understand that Kashmir means the State of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh.
The point is that Geelani, Mirwaiz and Malik only represent a separatist constituency which can't impose its separatist will on the unwilling people of Jammu and Ladakh, the state's two largest regions. The solution has to be such as is acceptable to the people of Jammu and Ladakh. Kashmir is not the chief determinant; it is a small region of the state. |
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