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| New-Delhi readying to revive dialogue process with separatists | | | Bashir Assad
Srinagar, May 31 : As the count down for 2014 elections to Jammu and Kashmir assembly has almost started with Omar Abdullah led coalition government completing three and a half years in office, New Delhi is actively working on a proposal to invite Kashmiri separatists for talks to arrive at some agreement ahead of the elections to see them participating in the same. Well placed sources in New Delhi told Early Times that Prime Minister's Office (PMO) was actively working on a proposal to renew its call for involving separatist leadership in talks to discuss, among other things, the report of the three-member interlocutors team which was very recently made public to accommodate their view-point in the process of talks at the highest political level.
Sources said that PMO in consultation with the Home Ministry is presently working out the contours of a sustained process to get separatists on board ahead of the 2014 assembly elections and ensure their participation in the democratic process which according to Kashmir watchers is incomplete without participation of separatists. Engagement with separatists followed by their participation in the 2014 assembly elections while outlining a future constitutional arrangement as according to sources, is essentially required for New-Delhi to tackle the widely acknowledged problem of peoples alienation in Kashmir. They believe that both New-Delhi and Kashmiri separatists cannot afford to continue with their static position anymore given the changing global scenario and equally fast changing ground situations in New-Delhi and Kashmir. "Though, elections have been anathema to the Separatist leadership for more than two decades by now who have consistently boycotted the electoral process, calling it a meaningless farce, but 2014 may see them take the plunge, finally, because both New-Delhi and the separatists cannot afford hold on their static positions anymore given the changing global scenario" said a separatist leader. "I could foresee good sense prevailing on both new-Delhi and the Kashmiri
separatists and in the coming days they may be able to make some progress" a senior Delhi- based journalist told Early Times . For him any political process will, however, fail to take-off without the meaningful participation of separatists and meaningful participation essentially implies to address the separatism through a sustained and structured dialogue process . The fact that issues of public interest including the issue of governance being raised by Hurriyat chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq during his weekly address at the religious congregation at Jamia Masjid in Srinagar since last one year or so is an indicator that separatist camp is revisiting its strategy. "However, lot depends on New-Delhi as to whether it is serious in addressing the internal dimensions of the Kashmir problem through engagement or as usual it revives the dialogue process to buy the time without giving a serious thought to it" said a political observer. Some observers believe that a section of APHC, by showing its willingness to work along with the NC and PDP, is readying to participate in the 2014 assembly elections. However, involvement of separatists without taking some bold initiatives on Kashmir will be a nonstarter. It connotes to dealing with separatists without effectively addressing the problem of separatism. The repeat of 1975 Indira-Sheikh accord that allowed Sheikh Abdullah to play his innings albeit without any significant political concession that could have assuaged the hurt feelings didn't worked then when thousands still had not perished in a bloody conflict. |
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