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Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 8: Leaving little for the separatists to toe on and projecting its ideas within four walls of the constitution of India, the Peoples Democratic Party is pitching for victory of self-rule proposal on the table of quiet diplomacy that is going on between New Delhi and Kashmir.
Mufti Mohammad Sayeed is of the firm opinion that implementation of the self-rule concept alone could settle the ticklish Kashmir issue. To mellow down the opposition in Jammu, the PDP leaders say, “the self-rule concept should not to be misconstrued as something anti-national because we favour implementation of the idea within the framework of the constitution of India”.
"The PDP leadership has already discussed the self-rule concept with the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh who assured that the idea will be examined properly”, says PDP leader and former Minister Dillwar Mir. He added, “at present the Party leadership is engaged in explaining the salient features of the self-rule idea to the people in various areas of the Kashmir valley, Jammu and Ladakh”.
To a question, he said that the purpose of the exercise (awareness campaign through seminars) was to evolve a consensus so that "we convey to Delhi the extent of peoples' support for the self-rule concept which was needed for motivating the central Government to debate the concept with other political leaders both at the national level and in the state”.
Another PDP leader, Nizam-ud-Din Bhat said that once the self-rule concept was accepted and implemented it could receive support from Pakistan too because the idea favours opening of more border routes for trade and travel, withdrawal of troops from within the state, scrapping of those central laws that were detrimental to the interests of the people of the state and provision for elected Governor.
Other party leaders wanted their rivals not to treat the self-rule idea a replica of Gen. Parvez Musharraf's four-point proposal on Kashmir. They said that the self-rule concept addressed both the internal and external dimensions of the Kashmir issue whereas the greater autonomy proposal of the National Conference addressed only the internal dimensions of the issue. The PDP believes that greater autonomy could promote administrative arrangement between the centre and the state.
The party leaders wanted the Government of India in general and the Prime Minister and the Union Home Minister in particular to make self-rule concept part of the "quiet diplomacy."They said let the centre discuss this concept with the separatists and "we are sure they will support the idea." Mohammad Dilawar Mir said that if the centre wanted the 'quiet diplomacy" to succeed it should begin the exercise with a debate on the self-rule idea.
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