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| Interlocutors instigating secession, asking Kashmiri youth to prepare roadmap for Azaadi | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Oct 26: What is it that is going in Jammu and Kashmir? Is the Indian State in a state of war with itself? Has New Delhi decided to hand over Jammu and Kashmir to Pakistan? Has the United States ultimately taken the plunge and persuaded the authorities in New Delhi to send persons from New Delhi to Kashmir to prepare the ground for the Kashmir's secession from India? Have the authorities in New Delhi given the mandate to persons whom they have sent to the state as interlocutors for legitimizing the ongoing struggle for "Azaadi" in the Kashmir Valley? Are the interlocutors on Jammu and Kashmir and sympathizers of Kashmiri separatists and Maoists like Arundhati Roy and Gautam Navlakha, who are also there in Kashmir, working in unison and instigating the people of Kashmir to rise in revolt against India and achieve "Azaadi"? These are some of the questions that need to be answered by the powers-that-be in New Delhi.
As for the well-wishers and friends of India and ardent believers in the concepts of secularism, democracy, peaceful co-existence, brotherhood and unity of mankind and religious freedom, they have come to believe that the Indian State is in a state of war against itself and that those who believe in what Pakistan and similar other countries believe in and Maoists/Naxalites have joined hands in order to ensure balkanization of India. Their belief has stemmed from what has started unfolding in New Delhi and in Jammu and Kashmir.
In New Delhi, on October 21, the nation witnessed Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Arundhati Roy, Varvara Rao and other Maoists and Kashmiri separatists spewing venom on India and demanding independence from Kashmir. The nation also witnessed the police ill-treating, thrashing and arresting those protesting against Geelani and Arundhati and raising pro-India slogans.
Two days later, the nation witnessed the leader of the interlocutors, Dileep Padgaonkar, expressing provocative and Pakistan-friendly views. The nation witnessed him saying: Pakistan is a factor; Pakistani involvement in the dialogue process imperative for forging a lasting peace; Jammu and Kashmir is not an issue, it is a dispute; we will do this and we will do that in order to work out a political settlement of the Kashmir dispute; and so on. There was no fundamental difference between what Padgaonkar said and what Pakistan and Kashmiri separatists and leaders like Omar Abdullah and Mufti Mohammad Sayeed have been saying. New Delhi did not react. One of the spokespersons only said that Padgaonkar is a senior journalist and let him explain what he said or what he not said. He said so while reacting to what the BJP said while reacting to what Padgaonkar said in Srinagar. The BJP had accused Padgaonkar of "internationalizing" the Kashmir issue and asked the Prime Minister ih he had given the interlocutors the mandate to reopen the settled issue of Jammu and Kashmir.
Emboldened by New Delhi's response to the BJP's charge, Padgaonkar held his ground firmly and virtually declared that "he stands by what he said" and that "he has the mandate because there is no binding on him." Not just this, he on Monday asked the students of the Kashmir University to "prepare a roadmap for Azaadi by the time they return for a second visit to the Valley." "Next time when we come (to the Kashmir Valley), let us discuss Azaadi and its economic and strategic implications. We have to discuss it threadbare. If this is your wish, we can discuss it…Prepare a roadmap with a time-line which can be delivered. Make it precise, make it practical, which can be achieved in a time-bound manner," Padgaonkar reportedly told the Kashmiri students. New Delhi should have immediately recalled these interlocutors, but it didn't do that, thus strengthening the belief that the Indian State is in a state of war with itself.
It was not only Padgaonkar who asked the Kashmiri students to prepare a roadmap for "Azaadi." Arundhati Roy and Gautam Navlakha and others of their ilk unleashed a similar campaign in Kashmir. Both of them instigated rebellion against India. Navlakha advocated right to self-determination. Roy demand "Azaadi" and urged the Kashmiri youth not to join the Indian paramilitary forces. All these anti-India activities took place simultaneously. Padgaonkar asking the Kashmiri students in Kashmir to prepare a roadmap for Azaadi" and Roy and Navlakha preaching "Azaadi" for Kashmir in Kashmir could not be construed as a mere coincidence. There must be something deeper.
It is not necessary to reflect further on what Padgaonkar and his teammates and Maoists Roy and Navlakha said and done in Kashmir between October 23 and 25. Everything is self-explanatory. The situation is horrible. The nation has to stand up and defeat forces operating from within and outside the political establishment with a view to wrecking the Indian State. |
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