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| Padgaonkar takes on separatists, rejects UN resolutions | | From The Horse's Mouth | | RUSTAM
JAMMU, June 12: There is much in the New Delhi-appointed interlocutors' report that needs to be rejected as dangerous, divisive and unsettling. There is also much in the report that makes one dismisses it as patently Valley-centric. In fact, many people have rejected the report as Valley-centric and divisive. They belong to Jammu, Ladakh and the national mainstream.
However, the interlocutors for Jammu & Kashmir, especially Dilip Padgaonkar, needs to be congratulated for his candid reflections as contained in his latest political essay on Jammu & Kashmir, which appeared in the today's edition of a leading national daily. This essay is nothing but a reflection on the reactions the report has evoked till date. He has, among other things, said in his essay that "our recommendations are not cast in stone" and that "they can be altered, amended and replaced with others". He admitted that the reactions to their report "are on expected lines." This speaks many things. But what are more noteworthy in his essay are two things. One is his blistering attack on the votaries of right to self-determination or the UN resolutions on Jammu & Kashmir. "The militants operating from the other side of the Line of Control and the separatist outfits based in the Valley have rubbished the report for ignoring their single, all-consuming demand: allow the Kashmiris, as the resolutions of the UN Security Council lay down, their right to self-determination. You can argue until the cows come home that the demand is rooted neither in legality nor in political wisdom…The militants and the separatist outfits realize this all too well. But to admit as much publicly would mean courting obsolescence. Hence, their dirge: the report is a sinister ploy to buy time in order to promote the designs of the New Delhi establishment and even those in the RSS!," he has said. Padgaonkar is absolutely right and he needs to be complimented for exposing the secessionists in Kashmir.
The other is his admission, nay candid acknowledgement, that "secessionism cannot ever be acceptable to the people of the Jammu and Ladakh regions, besides a large section of people in the Valley". Not only this, Padgaonkar has also acknowledged that "important sections of opinion in Jammu and Ladakh have convinced themselves that Article 370 must be thrown out of root and branch and the state be integrated fully in the Indian Union", saying "that would not only strengthen India's security interests in the strategically sensitive state but the two regions would also not be subjected any more to the step-motherly treatment they have received at the hands of the ruling elites". He admitted that it was because the interlocutors' suggestion that Article 370 be made a permanent feature that "in their (people of Jammu and Ladakh) eyes, the interlocutors, therefore, stand guilty of promoting a Valley-centric, pro-separatist and even anti-national agenda!"
What Padgaonkar said is what this scribe has been emphasizing day in and day out for the last more than two years in these columns. This scribe has umpteen times written that the secessionist movement in Kashmir is confined to the members of a particular religious sect, which has been dominating the state's political and economic institutions across the state since 1947. Besides, this scribe has umpteen times written in these columns of EARLY TIMES that the UN resolutions just cannot be implemented because Pakistan has not only refused to fulfill the conditions imposed on it but has also subverted them by ceding parts of the Jammu & Kashmir territories in the Aksai Chin region to China and virtually merged the Northern Areas with Pakistan.
The Padgaonkar's latest political essay on Jammu & Kashmir must have rattled the Kashmiri leaders, both separatists and "mainstream". One things is now very clear: Jammu and Ladakh are, in the interlocutors' view, as important factors in the state's political situation as Kashmir; the solution has to be such as is also acceptable to the people of Jammu and Ladakh. One thing more is clear: Those from Jammu and Ladakh who met with the interlocutors between October 2010 and before October 12, 2011 have succeeded in putting across their point of view. Hence, they, like the interlocutors who recognized these views, deserve more appreciation. Still, however, the people of Jammu and Ladakh have to be extra careful. For, the conspirators in Kashmir have not given up; they continue to operate and vitiate the state's atmosphere to achieve their final goal.
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