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| India not the erstwhile USSR, Interlocutors overstepped their mandate? | | Act of sedition | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Oct 28: Have the Interlocutors on J&K Dileep Pagdaonkar and Radha Kumar lost their balance of mind? Have they gone mad? What is their mandate? Are they operating at the behest of the Union Home Ministry or the Indian Foreign Ministry? Or, are they operating at the behest of Uncle Sam; the Americans who have always sided with Pakistan and hit India below the belt? To whom they are accountable?
Padgaonkar and Kumar have undoubtedly overstepped their mandate. Leave aside what they said in Kashmir between October 23 and October 26, notwithstanding the fact that what they said was highly outrageous. Just have a look at what they told media persons in Srinagar on Wednesday before concluding their Kashmir visit. Padgaonkar told reporters that he would interrogate L K Advani and other BJP leaders to know why they rejected the autonomy committee report in 2000. The autonomy committee report had envisaged an autonomous status for J&K. It had recommended the wholesale withdrawal of the Central laws which were extended to the state after August 9, 1953, when the Government of India had got Sheikh Abdullah dismissed from the position of Wazir-e-Azam and arrested on the charge that his activities were posing a threat to the country's unity, integrity and sovereignty. By airing such controversial views, Padgaonkar did indicate his willingness to consider the National Conference's demand for greater autonomy or the demand that negates and subverts the Very Constitution of India.
The interlocutor did not stop here. He further said: "Yes we would like to visit PoK to talk to the leadership there to get their point of view on the issue…We can even recommend the amendments in the Public Safety Act, ask for release of political prisoners and even ask the Centre to allow the peaceful protests in the valley in line with democratic temperament of the country…There is no need of imposing section 144 to quell the assembly of the people for peaceful demonstrations."
As if all this was not enough to cause alarm and grave concern, another interlocutor Radha Kumar, a votary of self-rule with some modifications here and there in the People's Democratic Party's self-rule formulation, went several steps further. In fact, she crossed all the limits and virtually talked about Kashmir's independence. She said: "Indian constitution is a beautiful document and there is room for modification with changing times and we can even recommend for the amendments in the Constitution to accommodate the discussions on the Kashmir issue and to find the solution to the problem in line with the aspirations of the Kashmiris…(and) accommodate discussion on the Azaadi option for Kashmir…The Constitution has been amended more than 400 times and there is no harm if it is modified further to make it more accommodative."
What both these interlocutors told reporters in Srinagar was no less than an act of sedition - one condemning the BJP-led NDA Government for rejecting the autonomy committee report and other suggesting amendment in the Indian Constitution to accommodate the "Azaadi" demand of the Kashmiri leadership. After all, Geelani and Maoist terrorists Arundhati Roy and Varvara Rao in New Delhi on October 21 and Roy, Rao and Gautam Navlakha on October 24 in Srinagar had said the same thing. These Kashmiri separatists and Maoist terrorists had demanded "Azaadi" and Radha Kumar suggested an amendment in the Indian Constitution to facilitate discussion on the "Azaadi" demand in Kashmir.
It appears Radha Kumar has only read the constitution of the erstwhile Soviet Union (USSR), which provided for the right to secede, and not the Indian Constitution, which doesn't provide for the right to secede. Article 1 of the Indian Constitution says, "India, that is Bharat, shall be a Union of States. The States and the territories thereof shall be specified in the First Schedule. The territory of India shall comprise the territory of States; the Union territories specified in the First Schedule; and Union; and such other territories as may be acquired." Article 1 clearly states that the Indian State can acquire "other territories", but it shall not allow any part of the country to secede.
As for the Constitution of the erstwhile USSR, which does not exist today, it said: "The territory of a Union Republic could not be altered without its consent. The boundaries between Union Republics might be altered by mutual agreement of the Republics concerned, subject to ratification by the USSR. A Union Republic itself determined its division into territories, regions, areas and districts, and decided other matters relating to its administrative and territorial structure." The Constitution granted to each Republic the right to enter into relations with other States, conclude treaties with them, exchange diplomatic and consular representatives, and take part in the work of international organizations (Article 80). Each Union Republic "retains the right freely to secede from the USSR" (Article 72).
It is clear that an insidious influence is at work to defeat the very idea of India by an unholy alliance between these interlocutors and anti-India forces. They need to be removed forthwith. In case they are not removed; in case no cognizance is taken of their dubious role in Kashmir, it shall be concluded by everyone that these interlocutors, certain elements in the Indian establishment and certain anti-India forces are working in unison to give legitimacy to the politics of separatism, based on religious fanaticism, and balkanize the Indian State. |
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