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| Now the interlocutors are listening more & speaking less | | | RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Jan 19: Have the Delhi-appointed interlocutors for Jammu and Kashmir given up their habit of speaking too much? Or, have they finally accepted that they committed serious blunders by speaking too much while touring different parts of the state last year? The answer to both these questions is in the affirmative.
They have, it can be said, turned somewhat experienced or may be it was the Home Minister's snub that ultimately forced the otherwise rather talkative interlocutors to listen more from the people and keep their mouth shut or not to make their views public on each and every issue that they discuss with the people in Jammu and Kashmir. Home Minister P Chidambaram had last November said that these interlocutors spoke too much and were in the habit of giving ball-to-ball commentary and this needed to be avoided. He had censured the interlocutors when certain reporters asked him if he shared their view that they would ask the Government of India to amend the Indian Constitution to accommodate the "Azaadi" demand as articulated by certain students in the Kashmir University in October last.
That they have changed their style became evident on January 17, when they visited the University of Jammu and had an interaction with some faculty members, including some rank supporters of self-rule, autonomy, or even independence, and votaries of the unity and integrity of the state and the Vice-Chancellor, who has no stake whatever in Jammu, or for that matter in the state, and who, like his predecessor, is more or less a fake secularist, lobbyist, inefficient and careerist. At least three of the academics who were present during the interaction are votaries of what the Kashmiri leaders believe in and what the fake secularists in Delhi and elsewhere advocate as a solution to the so-called Kashmir problem overlooking the fact that the ongoing movement in Kashmir is out-and-out-communal and that the bottom-line in Kashmir is nothing but secession, secession and secession.
According to report, certain elements during the interaction wanted the interlocutors to express their views on what certain "academics" had said, but nothing came out. The interlocutors, according to some insiders, candidly told them that "we are here to listen to you on various issues that required to be sorted out, the grievances that needed to be redressed, the problems that needed to be resolved and issues needed to be clinched. We want your suggestions, which we would incorporate in the report." This should be the approach. After all, the interlocutors are not dealing with an ordinary issue. They are dealing with an issue which is very sensitive; an issue of national import; an issue that concerns the very survival of the people of the state; and an issue that could not be clinched during all these 63 years because it was one of great complexities.
It was their fundamental duty to listen to everyone in the state, gather trustworthy and authentic information and then sit down and examine the same in order to draw the conclusion. That they acted otherwise and spoke even before analyzing the situation only created confusion and controversies. So much so that a number of political parties refused to meet them and demanded their dismissal. It is good that they have changed their style of functioning.
One can only hope that they would listen to the woes of the neglected and alienated sections (read the people of Jammu province and Ladakh region, internally-displaced Kashmiri Hindus, refugees from West Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied-Jammu and Kashmir and border migrants of 1965 and 1971) and recommend measures calculated to redress their grievances and integrating them fully into the national mainstream. They have to remain vigilant because there are elements in the administration and outside who have the potential of exercising their baneful influence on them. Similarly, they would do well not to go by the official information regarding distribution of funds among various regions of the state because there are elements who are expert in fudging the figures and hiding the facts. |
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