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| Kashmir committee shows better acceptability than interlocutors | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, July 23: The three-member Kashmir Committee, headed by Ram Jethmalani, seems to have outclassed the Government appointed three-member interlocutors, led by Dilip Padgaonkar, as far as the range of interaction with the cross section of the society is concerned.
Political leaders, Kashmiri displaced people, students, and members from the sector of industry and bar have shown keener interest in their meetings with the team led by Jethmalani during its current visit to Jammu.
The way the Kashmir committee has had free and fair discussion with separatists, both moderates and the hardliners, in the Kashmir valley last month indicated that it had better acceptability among the separatists than the interlocutors. During their series of visits to the Kashmir valley separatists, both moderates and hardliners refused to interact with the interlocutors.
It was only Moulvi Abbas Ansari, senior Hurriyat Conference leader, who had met the interlocutors who called on him at his residence in interior of Srinagar. The Maulana had to pay a price for this interaction when he was suspended from the conglomerate.
However, after a committee, constituted by Hurriyat Chief, Moulvi Umar Farooq, exonerated Maulana Ansari of the charges and he was taken back into the party.
While majority of Jammu based political leaders explained to the Jethmalani led committee the extent of discrimination they faced during the last five decades the Panthers Party and the BJP highlighted the adverse impact of Government's refusal to set up a fresh delimitation commission for looking into the discrimination meted out to the Jammu region which has 37 Assembly constituencies against 46 in the Kashmir valley.
The Committee was informed that despite the fact that the region of Jammu had more area and population than the valley its seat share in the Assembly was smaller than Kashmir province which was the root cause for poor devolution of funds to the Jammu region.
Informed sources said that the Jethmalani headed committee's report may be more comprehensive with incorporation of views and suggestions from those sitting on the other side of the fence than the final report of the three interlocutors.
Working chairman of the Panthers Party Harsh Dev Singh has alleged, during his meeting with the Kashmir committee members, that the successive state Governments have been misusing and abusing special status given to Jammu and Kashmir and in this connection reference was made to a six-year tenure of the state Assembly when in the country it is a five-year tenure.
Most of the political leaders who meet the Kashmir Committee members in Jammu called for reorganization of the state in order to ensure equal distribution of political and financial powers to the three regions and sub-regions.
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