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| Delhi should redraw its J&K policy | | | | Reports, commentaries and analysis say that New Delhi is making a strategy to deal with the situation in Kashmir Valley. Over past few weeks the things in Kashmir had gone quite awry and the Central Government was in a fix on how to move ahead. It was perhaps in the fitness of things that the power bosses in the Home Ministry and also in the Prime Minister devised a careful measure to first douse fires in Jammu and then move across the tunnel to handle things in Kashmir. The way Valley is on the brink is not likely to continue for too long. At the moment protests are being quelled by imposition of curfew and other uses of forces but eventually these protests will ebb giving a way for the dialogue. In fact it was the prolonged delay in the dialogue and a stalled peace process which led to the eruption of situation. Now when New Delhi looks at initiating a fresh round of dialogue with the Kashmiri separatists, it must be well borne in mind that things are now not all the same. The way Jammu agitation has sought to strongly convey its struggle for identity, this region can not be taken for granted anymore. We are strongly of the view that any conflict can be resolved through dialogue but at the same time we would yet more strongly suggestion that the dialogue has to be all inclusive and it can not be held in isolation. Perhaps it was the New Delhi’s policy of exclusion which led to eruption of sentiments in Jammu region. If New Delhi is serious about keeping the regions –Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh –intact as a single geo-political entity, the approach to Jammu and Kashmir will have to be redrawn. Here is a small example. When the government inked a pact with the Shri Amarnath Yatra Sangharsh Samiti to end agitation in Jammu, the Kashmiri leaders at once objected to it saying that they were not consulted. How can Government of India imagine that whatever it decides for Kashmir should be acceptable to Jammu and Ladakh regions without being a party to the dialogue? It has all along been said that Kashmir issue is trilateral and it has to be sorted out through a dialogue between New Delhi, Islamabad and the people of Kashmir. This is the time to redraw such policies and opinions. There can’t be any resolution to any issue of this state if does not have participation of the main players from all regions. Therefore, in any future course of dialogue on Kashmir, New Delhi must think of involving the leadership of Jammu to reach at a consensus decision. This two-month long agitation was enough an indicator that Jammu is no more in a mood to accept the things hands down. The process of reconciliation or dialogue on Kashmir which excludes sentiments and opinions from Jammu is bound to not only fail but also backfire. |
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