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| Kashmiri separatists hail Vajpayee as a hero | | This Is BJP! | | RUSTAM
JAMMU, June 15: Kashmiri separatists of all hues are very happy with the BJP veteran and former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Some of them hail him as a hero. Pakistani establishment was also happy with Vajpayee. It believed that Vajpayee and the Vajpayee-led ragtag NDA government were prepared to go to any extent to befriend Islamabad and conciliate the "estranged" Kashmiri people. In other words, it believed, and rightly, that what they could not achieve between 1947 and 1998, they could very easily achieve through the good offices of Vajpayee, his Hindu BJP and his men like former Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh, former National Security Advisor Brijesh Mishra, R K Mishra, a track II operative, and so on.
That the Kashmiri separatists have the highest regards for Vajpayee could be seen from the interview of former chairman of All-Party Hurriyat Conference (APHC) Prof Abdul Gani Bhat, which he gave only the other day to someone "who, along with a few other displaced Kashmiri Hindus, has been", according to well informed sources in the community of the displaced Kashmiri Hindus, "hobnobbing with the Kashmiri separatists for quite some now and assuring them that he and his associates would ensure the return of displaced Kashmiri Hindus to the Valley and help them to tell the international community that the ongoing separatist movement is not communal and that the Kashmiri Hindus are very much part of the secessionist movement".
It's not that what Bhat told the interviewer was something a top secret. In fact, what he told was what this scribe had revealed several times through these columns of EARLY TIMES. But the importance lies in the fact that it is Bhat who has informed the people of the state that the approach of Vajpayee and BJP was very accommodating and pragmatic. Vajpayee had once said that the Kashmir issue needed to be resolved as per "insaniyat ka daira".
Anyway, what did Bhat tell the interviewer about Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who had said at Tangdhar in Kashmir even before he took over as Prime Minister in 1998 that Article 370 shall ever remain part of the Indian Constitution? Prof Bhat, in the words of the interviewer, "revealed that the formula that had been hammered out by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee as a head of NDA Government and Pervez Musharraf, former Pakistan President, had identified four factors to be brought up for detailed discussion…He identified the factors as self-governance with identical governing mechanism in both parts of J&K, demilitarization of Kashmir valley, making border irrelevant meaning that all routes be opened for free movement of men and material and conduct of trade and tourism, and joint management of economic and developmental resources like river water, trade and tourism, power generation and joint management of industrial enterprises…He added that (the) four-point Vajpayee-Musharraf formula could remain operative for a specific period of time, say 20 years, after which people could express their final decision about how they wanted to settle their future…Prof. Bhat said that when Mr Vajpayee and Mr Musharraf conducted parleys and zeroed in on the four-point formula, General Ashfaq Kayani was the DG of ISI and he had been taken on board. Now that he is the Army Chief, he should have no hesitation or reservation in reopening the process that had been initiated by Mr Vajpayee and Mr Musharraf".
What Bhat, however, did not reveal was the fact that Vajpayee had also agreed to grant "maximum possible autonomy to Kashmir and its adjoining areas". The interviewer also did not ask Bhat about this aspect of the formula Vajpayee's man Jaswant Singh had talked about with his Pakistani counterpart Sartaj Aziz at Colombo (Sri Lanka). Perhaps, the interviewer himself was not aware of this fact, as also about other aspect of the agreement that had virtually suggested division of Jammu along the Chenab River on purely communal lies.
Is there any need to catalogue here the grave implications of the agreement that was reached between Vajpayee and Musharraf? There is no need as everything is explanatory. This is the BJP. It is disgusting that the BJP, which days in and day out talks of one people, one nation, one state, nationalism, Indian sovereignty, national unity, territorial integrity of India, democracy and secularism, had thought of the compromising the nation's stand on Jammu & Kashmir. It is good that the people defeated the BJP in 2004 and 2009. One can only hope and pray that the present BJP leadership would maintain a long distance from Vajpayee and pursue religiously the line the BJP used to purse before 1998.
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