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| Guv Malik is right, Congress is wrong | | Indo-Pak talks | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Oct 29: Senior Congress leader and former Home Minister P Chidambaram has criticized Governor of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh (JKL) State and termed him as Viceroy. "J&K Governor says political parties have no right to talk about India-Pakistan talks. He is probably a votary of 'partyless democracy' or 'no democracy' at all. We were told that the last governor was Lord Mountbatten. Wrong. Appointed Governors and Lieutenant Governors (by the Narendra Modi Government) are the new Viceroys," he has said while attacking the Governor of the state. What made the Congress to launch a scathing attack on the Governor? Last Wednesday, Governor SP Malik, referring to the NC and the PDP, had said, "These [political parties] have no right to talk about India-Pakistan peace talks. It is between governments of the two nations, as being neighbors makes it obvious that talks will happen for sure. But political parties bringing up the issue of Pakistan into dialogue process was neither acceptable to us then, nor will it be now". And a date later, he had said: "I have been meeting people from all shades of opinion. I meet everyone. As far as Hurriyat (conference) is concerned, they without asking Pakistan don't go even to the toilet. There will be no talks with them till they keep Pakistan out of it".
The Governor was absolutely right and the Congress was absolutely wrong. India is not a banana republic. It is a sovereign state. It has a system in place. It has Foreign Ministry and Foreign Office. It is the Foreign Ministry that exercises plenipotentiary powers (powers to negotiate, discuss and sign inter-nation agreements). No province within the state can exercise any such power. It is the Prime Minister and the Indian Foreign Office who have the mandate to talk or not to talk with any other nation.
By batting for the PDP and the NC, the Congress only tried to erode the sovereign status of India and help Pakistan and its Kashmir-based agents. No wonder then that the Congress has been at the receiving end across the country with the general populace terming it as a party of undesirable credentials. What have the PDP and the NC to do with Indo-Pak talks? They should focus on the issues concerning the welfare of the people of the state. It has become customary with the NC, the PDP, the Congress and the CPI-M leaders in Kashmir to poke their nose in Indo-Pak relations and it is this interference that has complicated the whole situation in the state. |
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