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| RTC Agenda: 11 Questions for interlocutors | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, July 10: Interlocutors for J&K have prepared an agenda for the round table conference, to be held in Jammu on Monday and Tuesday in which around 40-50 selected persons would take part. The agenda is available with the selected persons. Even a cursory glance at the agenda would force any reader to ask some direct questions to the interlocutors in order to clear doubts in his/her mind about their real intensions. Questions:
1. Do they consider J&K an integral part of India to the same extent as other states of the Union?
2. Do they consider J&K a disputed territory whose political future has yet to be decided?
3. Why have they not included in their agenda the demand being made by the NC for greater autonomy or for restoration of pre-1953 politico-constitutional status?
4. Why have they decided not to ascertain the views of the participants from Jammu in the round table conference on the autonomy demand being made by the Kashmir-based and Valley-centric NC? Or, do they take this demand of the NC to mean the demand of the people of Jammu province as well?
4. Why have they not included in their agenda the demand being made by the PDP for self-rule for the state or for a dispensation under which Pakistan would exercise co-equal powers with India in the Indian J&K and all the central laws and institutions extended to the state after August 9, 1953 would become non-applicable?
5. Why have they decided not to ascertain the views of the participants from Jammu in the round table conference on the self-rule demand being made by the Kashmir-based and Valley-centric PDP? Or, do they take this demand of the PDP to mean the demand of the people of Jammu province as well?
6. Why have they not included in their agenda the demand for independence as being made by the outfits like the JKLF? Or, do they mean that JKLF represents the entire state?
7. Do they believe that Kashmir is a unique problem that needs a unique solution?
8. Would they evolve that unique solution for Kashmir and apply the same to the whole of the state?
9. Why have they not included in their agenda the demands being made by the refugees from West Pakistan, Pakistan-occupied-Jammu and Kashmir and from the Kashmir Valley?
10. Do they believe that meeting the aspirations of the Kashmiri leaders, separatist or otherwise, would be the same as meeting the aspirations of the people of Jammu province and refugees of all varieties?
11. Why have they not included in their agenda the demands being made in Jammu for the delimitation of the assembly constituencies, reorganization of the state and for a mechanism that ends discrimination with the people of Jammu province?
The interlocutors need to answer these questions to allay the fears of the people of Jammu province. It is also expected that the participants would ask these questions and present an accurate picture of facts before the visiting interlocutors. The people of Jammu are anxiously waiting for what would emerge out of the round table conference. |
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