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| PM must talk to Samiti | | | | Entire Jammu and Kashmir is in the laps of fire. One after the other every districts and every small township is catching up with the flames. Jammu and Kashmir is perhaps today at a most critical and crucial juncture of history. Voices are getting dangerously sharpened and divides are deepening with no early solution in sight. One fails to understand as what New Delhi is waiting for. Even before the order of land diversion to the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board was cancelled, the people of Jammu had warned against doing this but the authorities at the helm of affairs least cared to bother. When this order was cancelled, people once again asked the government to correct its mistake with no further loss of time. The authorities once again did not bother. The fire set rolling and authorities thought that putting restrictions and buying more time may help. That too did not help. Now when entire state, except Ladakh, is up in flames, everybody from Srinagar to New Delhi is seen grappling in the dark. The Centre's initiative to resolve the Amarnath land transfer issue has not met with much success. On Saturday the first round of talks did not bear fruits. The all-party delegation concluded its visit to Kashmir on Sunday. It is learnt differences have cropped up with National Conference disapproving the nationwide agitation called by the BJP on the Amarnath issue, and the saffron party blaming the government for delay in holding the talks. Home Minister Shivraj Patil, however, exuded confidence that solution would be found out after considering all the suggestions made at the meeting over the past two days. It needs to be resolved soon in the interest of the ordinary people. The Home Minister asserted that communal harmony will not be allowed to be disturbed. The government will definitely make efforts that the issue is resolved in a manner which does not hurt the sentiments of people of Jammu as well as people of Kashmir. The Amarnath yatra should go on as before. All parties at the meet felt that communal harmony should not be disturbed. National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah expressed fears that BJP's plan to hold the nationwide agitation might escalate the trouble. The leader has appealed to the BJP to stop its agitational programme. It is hoped better sense prevails among the leaders of the parties and they bring the situation under control. Talks are the best means to resolve any issue. It is in the fitness of things that in next round of consultation being held on Wednesday, the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh should invite the Shri Amarnath Yatra Sangharsh Samiti headed by its convener Leela Karan Sharma to find out an early resolution of the issue. |
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