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EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Feb 17
Describing the proposed “surrender-cum-rehabilitation” policy for militants as “misadventure”, Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP) has asked the State and Central Governments to spell out the contours of the proposal.
“Government should refrain from embarking upon any such misadventure particularly in the present scenario where terrorists’ attacks have occurred at various places and claimed several lives of innocents in the country. The ruling dispensation should spell out the contours of the surrender policy,” Harsh Dev Singh, MLA and working chairman of JKNPP told reporters here.
He also urged the Government to first come out with a white paper on the conduct and role of surrendered militants in the past giving also the details of financial and other incentives provided to them as also the instances of approbation or reprobation of the said policy in the past.
“The announcements of sops and doles for ultras with so much of pomp and fanfare would only tantamount to glorification of militants and militancy and could prove counter productive in the process of elimination of insurgency,” the JKNPP charged
“The Union Government which was earlier skeptical even with regard to use of pre-paid mobile phones in the state and had banned the same on grounds of security, had shown over zealousness in the recall and rehabilitation of militants,” he mocked.
Harsh regretted the proposed move of rehabilitation of militants in the backdrop of the present situation defied all logic and could prove counter productive and highly “prejudicial” to the security of the state and of the nation.
He termed the idea of rehabilitation of terrorists as “perverse”, “ill-timed”, “ill-conceived” and “opposed to national interest” and is fraught with dangerous portends that threatens stability and unity of the country.
“The Resettlement Act which too provided for return and rehabilitation of all those who had voluntarily crossed over to Pakistan in 1947, had been stayed by the Supreme Court on a petition of JKNPP. The proposed move of the government is a “mischievous attempt” to implement the said anti-national Resettlement Act under the guise of ‘surrender policy’ and it will have serious ramifications if implemented,” he said.
He also castigated the state and central governments for giving precedence to the rehabilitation of militants over the issue of rehabilitation refugees of 1947.
Sounding a note of caution to the Union Government, he accused the Congress Party in the state of surrendering before National Conference.
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