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| UPA Govt favours serious debate on interlocutors' report | | | Does the report submitted by the three interlocuters on Kashmir to the Union Home Minister, deserve a debate, rather a serious discussion, before it is either rejected or accepted by the Government of India? Yes,the report deserves serious consideration and debate because it has touched issues that are quite sensitive and directly linked to the accession of Jammu and Kashmir to the union of India. If not anybody else but the union Home Minister, P. Chidambaram has given an indication of Government's idea of subjecting the recommendations of the three interlocuters to a serious discussion and debate. Seeking an informed debate on the Jammu and Kashmir interlocutors report, Home Minister P Chidambaram has said the Government will take a view on it including the recommendation on setting up of a Constitutional Committee at a later stage. "The Government has not taken a view," he has stated. He has also made it clear that without any serious debate and discussion it is not possible for the Government to say whether it is going to accept or reject the report especially the interlocutors' recommendations for setting up a Constitutional Committee to review all the Central Acts and Articles of the Constitution extended to the state. Realising the sensitivity behind the report Chidambaram has stated that it was not appropriate for him to express his personal views on the issue when the Government was yet to consider it. Chidambaram expressed the hope that an informed debate will take place on the report which should include the political parties. "Each one of us is a prisoner of the past. We should release ourselves from the past and genuinely participate in the debate. When the debate takes place, I am sure, different views will be expressed on the proposal to constitute a Constitutional Committee and let us look at the pros and cons of the report," he has stated. Asked whether it would be a structured debate, the Home Minister said the interlocutors have offered to act as resource persons to facilitate the debate.
The Union Home Ministry will seek assistance from the three interlo-cuters for acting as resource persons during workshops and debates on their report. After these debates on the report an all party meeting may be called to discuss the report. This is being done for evolving a national consensus on the issue. "It is also my view that at some point of time we should call the all party meeting which gave rise to the appointment of the interlocutors. I think the political parties will also discuss the report and come up with their views, "Chidambaram has said. "This is an important matter and I think we should approach it with a great degree of seriousness so that there is a genuine and informed debate on the subject," the Home Minister has added.All this goes to indicate that the Congress led UPA Government is not prepared to throw the interlocuters' report in the dustbin as was indirectly done with the autonomy comittee report of the National Confer ence of 1999 or of the self-rule concept of the PDP. No doubt the interl-ocuters' report is unlikely to address the internal and external dimensions of the Kashmir issue the UPA Government still wants to carry out some modifications and improvements so that its recommendations, when implemented, resolved some internal conflicts in Jammu and Kashmir. |
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