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EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Dec 20: Addressing the 83rd Plenary session of the party at Burari (Delhi) on Sunday, AICC president Sonia Gandhi stressed the need to seek reasons for the turmoil in J&K and said, “there is a need to address the alienation of the whole new generation of youth that has known nothing but conflict". Besides, she referred to the appointment of interlocutors for the state charged with the responsibility of finding reasons behind the prevailing unrest in the state. The basic upshot of her remarks on J&K was that the “political process must get new energy and focus.”
That the AICC president had to emphasize the need to find reasons behind the ongoing turmoil and violence in Kashmir established that her political advisors had not briefed her properly about the ground situation in the state, about the nature and composition of the ongoing secessionist violence in the Valley, about the rise of stone throwers in Kashmir and about the status of Kashmir and its people in the country. It also established that her political advisors had not briefed her properly about the socio-economic and political life of the people of Kashmir. But more than that, it established that her political advisors had utterly failed to apprise her about the political process in the state.
It’s true that she referred to Jammu as well two-three times during her address, but her focus was Kashmir, the Kashmiri youth and the Kashmiri alienation. She spoke what her irresponsible political advisors told her to speak. After all, she has to depend upon her political advisors. Had her advisors apprised her about the ground realities in the state, she would not have stressed the need to find reasons behind the ongoing turmoil in the Kashmir Valley. She would not have talked about the alienation in Kashmir. Instead, she would have taken to task the communalists and separatists in Kashmir and stressed the need to combat those in the Valley whose one-point agenda is secession; she would have hit the nail on the head and emphasized the need to take to task the state government whose recklessness has only served to further complicate the already rather complex situation in the state. There is no doubt whatever that her political advisors had not told her about what the Cabinet Committee on Security or the Delhi-appointed interlocutors have said about the present state government. While the CCS has talked about “trust deficit and governance deficit”, interlocutor Dileep Padgaonkar has talked about “inefficiency and insensitivity.”
The need of the time is to tackle the issues afflicting the troubled state. Some of the issues are: alienation in Jammu province; alienation in Ladakh; extremism, terrorism and communalism in Kashmir; miserable plight of the refugees from West Pakistan, Pakistan-occupied-Jammu and Kashmir, the Kashmir Valley and the border migrants; and unemployment problem and underdevelopment in Jammu and Ladakh. These are some of the issues that need to be tackled.
As for the political process the AICC president talked about, it is already there in place. There is a democratically-elected government in the state. Of course, it’s true that it has failed to deliver on all fronts and that there is corruption, nepotism and inefficiency everywhere and at all levels; it has failed to end alienation in Jammu and Ladakh and mitigate the hardships of the refugees. It is this that needs to be taken a serious cognizance of. Will her political advisors inform the AICC president about the true story of facts? They should. The AICC president needs to be briefed properly. The basic problem is that men at the helm are always kept in the dark by the vested interests.
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