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| Who expects squabble ridden interlocutors to deliver magic? | | | Early Times Report
jammu, Aug 12: Now it is the turn of the interlocutors. Before their report on how to deal with the problems in Jammu and Kashmir and what ails the state becomes any readable news, the interlocutors are in news themselves for all the wrong reasons.
First shell fired at the credibility of the interlocutors was the disclosure that Dileep Padgaonkar, the head of the three member team, had attended seminars organized by Ghulam Nabi Fai, the ISI point man in the US who has been lobbying for decades there to create opinion congenial to the merger of Kashmir with Pakistan. Padgaonkar defended himself saying there was nothing wrong with him attending the seminars organized by this person or that person as long as the intentions of those attending the seminars remained clean and plain.
That is wonderful and by this logic there is nothing wrong even with anybody attending a training camp in Pakistan occupied Kashmir unless he returns back to the state and then uses the weapon his masters gave him across the borders to shoot somebody. His intentions would continue to remain clean and plain unless caught shooting at unarmed civilians or police informers. He could have possessed the weapon for self-defence!
The Fai-Padgaonkar dust had not fully settled when Radha Kumar, the academician among the triumvir declared she would not sit along side M.M. Ansari. Perhaps the lady does not like Ansari's nose. This is a disparate group of three persons one does not know drawn for what reasons who cannot settle their own little squabbles. How can the nation expect them to make recommendations to solve the Kashmir problem!
The differences among the three interlocutors are common knowledge everywhere in the country. It is pathetic that the home ministry should have intervened to pacify the nerves of Radha Kumar to convince her that the objectionable nose of Ansari would be cut short to make it aesthetically acceptable. Ansari must thank his stars the madam did not object to his bad breath. That would have forced the poor fellow to change his brand of toothpaste and use Colgate preferably.
If anybody seriously believed the interlocutors would make any difference to the situation in the state other than enjoy the hospitality of the state's exchequer then such a person fully deserves the shock the bickering among the triumvir must have caused.
Jammu and Kashmir has seen interlocutors, point men, emissaries, negotiators, arbitrators and experts who came here for trout fish and Scotch whisky. People who serve these highly educated, efficient and circumspect dignitaries those have been coming to the state to solve the problems have some interesting observations.
"Such dignitaries maintain that scotch and trout fish taste best in the cool, temperate environment of the Valley and the Ladakh region. Medically also, liquor gives more calories and in muggy conditions of sub-tropical areas booze lovers do not fully enjoy the gift of Bacchus," said an employee of the state hospitality and protocol department.
Now let us seriously discuss the mandate of the interlocutors. Who are these persons? What is their constitutional status to make recommendations on a baffling problem like Jammu and Kashmir? What is the legal status of the team? They do not have the legal standing even of a commission of enquiry for the team of interlocutors has not been constituted under the commission of enquiries act.
Whatever they write or recommend does not have the sanctity or the force of law and it is not binding either on the state government or the centre to go by their word.
A famous Persian couplet reads, 'Nishastum, Kuftum, Barkhastum.' This means they met, they spoke and they left. This is exactly what is going to happen to the recommendations/suggestions that the team of interlocutors is going to make. If that does not happen and anything evenly remotely worthwhile emerges after the recommendations are made, Delhi would have re-written its own history on centre-state discourse with respect to Jammu and Kashmir. |
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