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| Padgaonkar defends participation in ISI-sponsored anti-India seminars | | Defending The Indefensible | | Rustam
EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Aug 3: Chief interlocutor for Jammu & Kashmir Dileep Padgaonkar has virtually snubbed his critics, including interlocutor M M Ansari, and defended his participation in the Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI)-sponsored anti-India seminar/seminars. Only the other day, he came down heavily on those who had denounced him for his association with the ISI America-based agent of Kashmir origin Ghulam Nabi Fai or who had denounced him for taking part in anti-India seminars organized in different parts of the world with a view to projecting the Pakistani line on Jammu & Kashmir and shamelessly asserted that "he did no wrong by attending Fai's meetings."
The critics of Padgaonkar, including MM Ansari, had desired that either Padgaonkar should quit on his own or the Union Government should sack him because he had shamed the Indian nation by enjoying the Pakistani hospitality obviously on the condition that he, like other "anti-India Indians like Kuldip Nayar, Rajinder Sachhar, Gautam Navlakha, Radha Kumar, Harinder Baweja, Angna Chatterjee, Jitendra Bakshi", to mention only a few, would promote the Pakistani cause in the Indian Jammu & Kashmir. Leave aside Home Minister P Chidambaram who came to the rescue of Padgaonkar and it was expected. The Union Home Minister -- whose own position has become quite untenable as a result of former Telecom Minister A Raja's open charge that whatever he did he did it in consultation with the Prime Minister and the Home Minister - has all along defended the indefensible. He is one of the two Union Ministers who had defended Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's October 7, 2010 assembly statement that Jammu & Kashmir had only acceded to India and not merged with the Indian nation. The other was Foreign Minister S M Krishna who has brought shame to India a number of times during the last 25 months or so.
Padgaonkar should have tendered an unconditional apology to the nation, put in his papers and asked the Union Government to replace him with some other person of impeccable record, saying that he stood thoroughly exposed because the American spy agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), had revealed everything about him and that it would be in the fitness of things if his resignation was accepted forthwith to assuage the hurt feelings of the nation. Thick-skinned and shameless as he was, he didn't do that. Instead, he thought it prudent to launch a counter-offensive against his critics to silence them.
Defending his participation in the ISI-sponsored seminars and making it loud and clear that he would "step down from the government's panel of interlocutors on Jammu & Kashmir", Padgaonkar not only defended his participation in the ISI/Fai-sponsored anti-India seminars, but he also stated that "if someone goes through the records of the seminars and workshops I have attended over 30 years, they might dig out that one was organized by this intelligence agency or that banned group." He didn't stop here. He went on to say that "I knew where his (Fai's) policies were leaning towards but I had no idea about his source of funding."
What Padgaonkar said in his defence has further exposed him and established that he had been attending seminars organized by banned organizations as well as by Fai about whom he himself said that he knew what Fai stood for since decades. His argument that he was not aware of the fai's "source of funding" is as weak as it is untenable. The fact of the matter is that he knew everything and that his participation in the anti-India seminars was not a mere lapse. His participation was voluntary and deliberate. The motivation was Pakistani hospitality and insatiable lust for money and other worldly things - wining, dining, foreign tours and so on.
It is disturbing to note that the powers-that-be in New Delhi have allowed the likes of Padgaonkar to roam about freely and enabled them to attack and snub their critics. The nation is watching with vigilance what the likes of Padgaonker, in collaboration with certain elements in the New Delhi's corridors of power are doing to jeopardize the Indian interests to accommodate the Pakistani interests in India and it would surely teach the "anti-India" Indians a lesson. In the end, it can be said that no country in the world, except India, has any space whatever in its scheme of things. The countries like United States, China, Pakistan, Israel, to mention only a few, take no time in eliminating the likes of Fai and his collaborators. These countries do not care for such dubious outfits as PUCL, Amnesty International, Human Right Watch and similar other militant, separatist and communalist-friendly outfits. They act the moment they find se their nationals indulging in fissiparous activities. |
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