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| Padgaonkar's support to amendment a cry in despair? | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, June 13: Even the three interlocutors on Kashmir have seemingly concluded that there cannot be any cut and dried solution to the Kashmir issue that can satiate New Delhi, Islamabad, people of the three regions, Ladakh, Kashmir and Jammu, of the state. Possibly this is one of the factors that has been responsible for a cry of desperation one has heard from the head of the three-member team of interlocutors,Dileep Padgaonkar after the report ,they submitted to the union Home Minister, P.Chidambaram, kicked up more controversies than had been expected.This is the reason that he has favoured any amendment to the recommendations which could satisfy the mainstream politicians and the separatists also.
Dileep Padgaonkar,has made it clear that "our recommendations are not cast in stone.They can be altered,amended,replaced with others."He has said so in view of what he calls nuanceed stand taken by the mainstream parties and even a section of the Hurriyat Conference. Padgaonkar and his two associats, Prof.Radha Kumar and M.M.Ansari had expected that their report would strike a balance between the two extreme views,one held by the separatists in Kashmir and the other by a majority of people in the regions of Ladakh and Jammu.It has failed in do so and hence Padgaonkar has called for amendment to the report.
While referring to the demand of the separatists for a plebiscite as provided in the UN resolution on Kashmir, Padgaonkar has said that this demand "is rooted neither in legality nor in political wisdom.He has clarified that secessionism "cannot ever be acceptable to the people of the Jammu and Ladakh regions besides a large section of people in the valley."Padgaonkar has even gone to the extent of saying that even the separatists know that right to self-determination was not practicable still they kept on voicing this demand to establish their relevance. He said against this demand of the separatists those in the regions of Jammu and Ladakh chanted in favour of abrogation of Article 370 leading to full integration of the state with rest of the country which was needed for strengthening India's security.If Padgaonkar has voiced concern over the adverse reaction the interlocutors' report received from the separatists,from the mainstream and politicians besides people in the three regions it does indicate that the report has not succeeded in addressing the internal and the external dimensions of the Kashmir issue.
Here Padgaonkar and his two colleagues cannot be faulted for preparing a report that has neither displeased all nor pleased politicians belonging to the mainstream and those sitting on the other side of the fence.This is so because while the separatists favour snapping of political and constitutional links between Kashmir and rest of the country,majority of people and Jammu and Ladakh centric politicians support the idea of strengthening the process of integration between Jammu and Kashmir and rest of the country.It is but natural that any report that tries to strike a balance between the two extreme views held by the separatists and the nationalist forces within the state cannot be acceptable to the entire population of Jammu and Kashmir.
Well Padgaonkar has favoured amendment or alteration to the report but the possibilities of carrying out amendments to the report that could address the internal and the external dimensions of the Kashmir issue are quite bleak. What then can be the alternatives ?Either New Delhi has to win over the separatists so that they stop following the guidelines from Pakistan. However,in this exercise India cannot afford to sideline Islamabad which continues to have the potential of misguiding and misleading one group or several groups of people in Kashmir. The second alternative for New Delhi is to clinch the issue with Islamabad over the head of the separatists,who survive and draw sustenance from Pakistani agencies.It can be done if New Delhi talks to Islamabad from a position of strength. In case it is not possible, New Delhi could make a new attempt at freezing the Kashmir issue for a period of 10 to 15 years.
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