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| Recall interlocutors back to Delhi, say Jammu leaders | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Oct 25: RESENTMENT is brewing up among Jammu leaders over the recent statement of the leader of the three-member team of interlocuters, Dileep Padgaonkar, in which he had stated that Kashmir was a dispute between India and Pakistan has created
Leaders belonging to the Panthers Party, BJP and the Panun Kashmir said that if the Kashmir issue was a dispute between India and Pakistan and needed to be resolved through bilateral talks then what was the purpose for sending the team to Jammu and Kashmir.
Chairman Panun Kashmir, Dr Ajay Chrungoo,said that if Padgaonkar was of the opinion that the dispute needed to be settled by Islamabad and New Delhi he should return to the Union capital without enhancing the level of confusion and uncertainity. He said that the Congress-led UPA Government in the centre should come out with a definite policy on Kashmir and make it clear whether the problem needed to be settled through bilateral or triangular parleys. If Delhi is in favour of resolving the problem through bilateral talks it should recall the team of interlocuters.
Chrungoo expressed concern over the continued neglect of displaced people from Kashmir who were the real victims of the Pakistan sponsored terrorism.
Working chairman of Panthers Party, Harsh Dev Singh said that it was strange that on one hand the Government of India believed in the finality of the state's accession with India and on the other hand was keen to settle the problem either through dialogue with Islamabad or with separatists. He said it was because of this attitude of the Government of India that the Kashmir issue had got complicated allowing anti-India forces and some international agencies to convert the valley into a playfield of conspiracies. He said that Padgaonkar should not go beyond his brief to earn goodwill of anti-india elements in Kashmir.
Even the BJP leaders were unanimous on the need for recalling the team of interlocuters back from Kashmir to Delhi because people like Padgaonkar was trying to create added confusion. They said that Padgaonkar's latest statement could encourage pro-Pakistan elements in Kashmir.
Chrungoo and Harsh Dev said that if Delhi accepted that Kashmir was a dispute between India and Pakistan and needed to be resolved through talks between the two sides it should immediately recall the team of interlocuters and that too was necessary when no separatist leader was willing to talk to them. They said that had the interlocuters began their session from Jammu they would have been able to understand the real issues involved in the current problem in Kashmir. Harsh said that by flying to Srinagar instead of Jammu, the Government of India in general and the interlocuters in particular demonstrated "bias" against the region of Jammu and its people.
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