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| Chidu's interlocutors sing Sagheer working group song | | 'Nothing new' | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
JAMMU, Jun 2: Union Home Minister P.Chidam-baram's Interlocutors on Kashmir have comeup with part of what Late Justice Syed Sagheer Ahmed has recommended in Prime Minister's working group report on centre-state relationships.
New Delhi's reliance on Home Minister after Prime Minister's working groups gave detailed outlines of what should be done in Jammu and Kashmir to quell dissention and aspirations of separation failed to come up with new-fangled initiatives. The interlocutors met same set of people, heard the often repeated views and wrote the report.
Expectations touched skies. But the only marked difference between Sag-heer and Interlocutors report is that while former being a judge used legal terminology to tell people in Jammu and Kashmir that needles of clock cannot be turned back, later which included noted journalist Daleep Padga-onkar, academician Radha Kumar and former Information Commissioner M.M Ansari made similar recommendations emphasizing setting up of constitutional committees.
Sagheer in his report justified extension of several central laws to the state of Jammu and Kashmir by saying that all werer atified by the state constituent assembly. Padgaonkar's report talks abouts etting up a constitutional committee headed by an eminent person who enjoys confidence of the people of all the three regions. The committee would review application of various central laws to the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
Padgaonkar's report like Sagheer Ahmed's has desisted from recommending Azadi, Autonomy, Self-Rule but urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that controversial issue of granting certain constitutional guarantees to state of Jammu and Kashmir be debated further for a possible consensus. However, Padgaonkar has used Journalistic language while making this recommendation.
The report says "If stakeholders in Jammu and Kashmir are willing to enter into a settlement, the door can always be kept open for Pakistan to join." In these words,the interlocutors have accepted that aspirations of people of J&K are diverse and there is no meeting point between the three regions. On the crucial question of NC's autonomy, interlocutors have refused to buy the idea and buried it alongwith Azadi, Self-rule, achievable nationhood etc.
Sagheer and Interlocutors both affirm that constitution of India has enough provisions to redress the grievances of people of all the three regions. They maintain that solution rests within the constitution of India and do not hesitate in saying that Kashmir is a problem internal to the affairs of India, cementing further the view that Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India.
Sagheer and Interlocutors have both advised government of India to make Article 370 permanent feature of Indian constitution. The only difference while Sagheer has said that question of removing or retaining Article 370 should be left with the people of Jammu and Kashmir since they are better judges of themselves, interlocutors have recommended that it should be made special within the Indian constitution.
Apart from these controversial questions, the interlocutors have followed suit and in their academic plus journalistic language recommended what Sagheer already did in his 196 page report which was addressed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh but was unceremoniously presented to Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on December 23, 2009 in Jammu by the chairman of theworking group Justice (Retd) Sagheer Ahmed through his Secretary Ajit Kumar(Retd IAS).
They have not recommended an out of box solution. Set-up in October 13, 2010, the group submitted its report to Union Home Minister P.Chidambaram on October 12, 2012. The report was made public on May 14, 2012. Interlocutors met around 700 delegations in all the 22 districts of Jammu and Kashmir.
On the contrary, Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, during his previous tenure, had set up five working groups on confidence building in Jammu and Kashmir on May 25, 2006, at the end of the second round table conference in Srinagar. The first and third conferences were convened in New Delhi on February 25, 2006 and in Jammu on April 25, 2007.
Headed by Justice (Retd.) SagheerAhmed, working group on centre-state relations held first meeting at New Delhi on December 12, 2006 (NC abstained from this meet), second at Jammu on February 3, 2007 and third at New Delhi on March 29, 2007. The group last met for two days on September 2 and 3, 2007 again in the Union Capital but failed to come up with recommendations as members were seen to be pulling in too many directions.
The other four working groups on Strengthening Relations Across LoC (Line of Control dividing Kashmir between India and Pakistan), Confidence Building Measures Across Segments of Society in the state, Economic Development of Jammu and Kashmir and Ensuring Good Governance-submitted their recommendations to the prime minister in the third round table conference on April 25, 2007.
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