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| Elections 2019: India the only stakeholder in J&K | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 28: Political parties and separatist outfits in Kashmir have again unleashed a no-holds-barred campaign aimed at creating an impression that J&K is a disputed territory and outfits like Hurriyat Conference are also stakeholders in the state. The parties like the NC and the PDP are doing so in their desperate attempt to woe the Kashmiri voters and win the 2019 Lok Sabha elections and the defeated separatists are raising the stakeholder- bogey just to keep the pot boiling in Kashmir.
Unfortunately, we have in our own country certain commentators and so-called trouble-shooters and conflict-managers who also term the separatists in Kashmir as "stakeholders" and repeatedly urged the Union Government to talk to them to resolve the otherwise non-existent Kashmir issue. Thus, they negate the very cardinal principles of the State and the Sovereignty. The worst part of the whole situation is that even a national party like the BJP uses the term "stakeholders" again and again while reflecting on the Jammu & Kashmir situation.
It would be prudent to quote verbatim what the BJP has said umpteen times. It has said: "The earlier NDA Government led by Atal Bihari Vajpayee had initiated a dialogue process with all political groups, including Hurriyat Conference, in the spirit of 'Insaniyat, Kashmiriyat, and Jamhooriyat'. Following the same principles, it will facilitate and help initiate a sustained and meaningful dialogue with all stakeholders, which will include all political groups, irrespective of their ideological views and predilections. This dialogue will seek to build a broad-based consensus on the resolution of all outstanding issues of Jammu & Kashmir".
Even a superficial look at these lines will be enough for a naïve to conclude that even the BJP doesn't consider Jammu & Kashmir an integral part of India and that its political future is yet to be determined. Here lies the whole problem. All Kashmiri parties and separatists - apart from parties like the Congress, the CPI and the CPI-M - are accusing the BJP-led NDA Government of going back on its commitment and urging it again and again to start talks with "all stakeholders' in Kashmir to resolve the "71-year-old Kashmir problem".
Sad that elements in the Indian political class have right from the beginning of freedom of India relied on conceptual constructs which are self-contradictory, illogical, unscientific and destructive in mature. Meaningless concepts such as "composite dialogue", "stakeholders", "back channel diplomacy", "peace process", "neighbours cannot be changed', "South Asian Peace Zone" and so on have been fabricated by such elements because they have never picked up the courage to face the growth of Islamic jihad in Kashmir and because they never built the determination to fight it.
Of course, there are territories of Jammu & Kashmir, which have been under the illegal occupation of Pakistan since October 1947. It is for New Delhi to take the required steps to retrieve those territories as the February 1994 unanimous parliamentary resolution.
Indian political class would do well to revise their whole approach towards Jammu & Kashmir and stop using such unsettling terms as stakeholders. It must remember that the Kashmiri separatists and the so-called mainstream parties like the PDP and the National Conference have been working for another communal partition of India and for a regime that is virtually outside the political and constitutional organization of India. |
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