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| Interlocutor Radha tenders resignation, says she can't work with Ansari | | Fai Connection | | Rustam
EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Aug 9: Kudos to interlocutor for Jammu and Kashmir MM Ansari. Kudos for what? Kudos because he has succeeded in inspiring or provoking Radha Kumar to tender resignation from the position she had been holding since October 13, 2010, when the Union Government took an extraordinary step and appointed a three-member panel of interlocutors for Jammu and Kashmir with senior journalist Dileep Padgaonkar as its head.
Radha Kumar, according to a leading Delhi-based national daily, sent her resignation letter to Union Home Minister P Chidambaram yesterday informing that "she doesn't want to be associated with her colleague MM Ansari." In he letter to the Union Home Minister, Radha Kumar has reportedly said that "she would continue to work on her part of the interlocutors' report due end-September, but would not attend any meetings with Ansari or accept any payments made customarily to all interlocutors."
Ansari, as already reported in these columns a couple of times, had criticized chief interlocutor Dileep Padgaonkar for attending the ISI/Fai-sponsored anti-India seminar on Jammu and Kashmir in Washington DC a few years ago and Radha had attended an anti-India seminar on Kashmir Brussels organized by the Tramboo Centre, another ISI-funded anti-India seminar circuit. Ansari had described their participation in the ISI-sponsored seminars on Jammu and Kashmir as "most unfortunate." In fact, he had suggested indirectly that Padgaonkar and Kumar had vitiated the working of the panel as the very credibility of these two interlocutors had become questionable.
It was only on July 19 that the American spy agency, FBI, had arrested Ghulam Nabi Fai, an American national of Kashmir origin, on the ground that he had been using the Pakistani money for influencing the American policy on Jammu and Kashmir without registering himself with the Justice department as a Pakistani lobbyist. The Tramboo Centre is also under the scanner and there are reports that the authorities might initiate legal proceedings against Abdul Majeed Tramboo for "his close coordination with the Pakistani establishment, ISI and Fai."
As for Ansari, he has firmly held his ground and told the correspondent of a leading national daily: "My working relationship with my colleagues is excellent. And our team work is unaffected and is progressing well. But I must confess that both of my colleagues are unhappy with my remarks on their availing of hospitality offered by foreign agencies, before and after their appointment as interlocutors. I have requested them personally to put in the public domain details of their recent foreign visits so as to avoid any media speculation, but to no avail. The people of J&K who have lived in violence due to militancy and are suspicious of our intentions due to broken promises, expect us to be truthful in anything we do. This is what bothers me and makes me spend sleepless nights."
The report that Radha Kumar has sent her resignation letter to the Home Minister has only inspired the friends and well-wishers of India and the nationalist constituency in the state. They were unhappy with both Padgaonkar and Kumar because they had aired views which only suited Pakistan and Kashmiri separatists as well as the protagonists of greater autonomy and self-rule. So much so that they had gone to the extent of suggesting that they would urge the Government of India to "accommodate the Azadi" demand as put forth by a section of Kashmiri Muslims. Their remarks had created a sort of furore in Jammu and elsewhere in the country with several organizations demanding their recall and dismissal.
One can only hope and pray that Padgaonkar would also tender resignation and Home Minister would accept their resignations. He must accept their resignation because they have forfeited the moral authority to act as interlocutors. |
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