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| Farooq demanding discussion on ‘interlocutors’ report, Omar demanding revocation of AFSPA | | Status Of Congress -- I | | Rustam
JAMMU, Jan 30: Farooq Abdullah is president of National Conference (NC), Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy and father of Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah. He is part of the Union Government and, hence, accountable to the nation and constitutionally bound to defend, protect and respect the Indian Constitution, which, like Jammu and Kashmir Constitution, says Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India and no authority can alter the country's borders or geographical boundary. His party is also leading the government in Jammu and Kashmir, government constituted as per the State Constitution, which emphatically says that the State shall ever remain an integral part of India. Hence, he is also responsible to the nation and the people of the state, as also duty bound to defend, protect and respect the State Constitution.
It is regrettable that Farooq Abdullah is going beyond the confines of the Indian Constitution as well as Jammu and Kashmir Constitution to pander to separatists and communalists in the Valley and offending in the process those in the State whose watchword and battle-cry all along was, and continues to be, complete integration into India, abrogation of Article 370, application of the Indian Constitution to the State in full and emancipation from those who have manipulated power and misused their position to jeopardise the interests of others. He is fully aware of this fact and still he is treading a path the bulk of the people in the State opposes and abhors. He knows that an overwhelming majority of people in the State is against the implementation of the recommendations as contained in the report submitted by the interlocutors - Dileep Padgaonkar, Radha Kumar and MM Ansari - to the Government of India on October 12 last year on the ground that these recommendations, if accepted and implemented, would not only unsettle things in Kashmir and promote communalism and separatism but would also divide Jammu province on communal lines and further empower the Valley leadership to exploit the people of the State's two other regions, Jammu and Ladakh. He also knows that his idea is fraught with dangerous ramifications, including the danger of explosions of portentous dimensions in Jammu province and Ladakh and yet he is insisting on a discussion on the interlocutors' report prepared by persons with doubtful credentials.
Farooq Abdullah yesterday told reporters on the sidelines of two functions at Zorawar Singh Auditorium, Jammu University, and National Conference headquarters, Sher-i-Kashmir Bhawan, Jammu, that he would "meet Home Minister P Chidambaram, who also happens to be a member of Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS), and urge him for a discussion on the report in CCS to be followed by a discussion in the Parliament and then making it public". "I will take up the issue with the Union Home Minister to whom the Interlocutors had submitted their report in October last year. The report should be discussed and debated in CCS and Parliament and then thrown open for public…The report of the Interlocutors is 'much more important than other documents' because all three Interlocutors had visited the entire State and met several sections of society in all three regions before finalising the report…It a comprehensive document," he also said.
It needs to be underlined that the interlocutors' report, according to media reports, has suggested that Article 370 should be made a permanent feature of the Indian Constitution and recommended meaningful autonomy to the state and recommended demilitarisation and general amnesty. These media reports also suggested that the interlocutors took into consideration the autonomy committee report, self-rule document, the Achievable Nationhood and Balraj Puri's concept of state autonomy and regional autonomy while preparing and finalising their report. Besides, the media reports clearly suggested that the interlocutors have divided Jammu province into sub-regions on religious lines in order to erode the age-old identity of Jammu province. This is the report Farooq Abdullah wants the Parliament to discuss and adopt. (To be continued) |
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