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| Thank God, former interlocutors are not visiting State | | Vitiating Atmosphere | | Rustam
Jammu, Aug 29: Yesterday, a number of local dailies, excluding EARLY TIMES, carried story on their front pages that two former interlocutors - Dilip Padgaonkar and Radha Kumar - would be in the State for a week where they would hold workshops on their report and get people's feedback on it. Actually, the PTI had filed a story to this effect and suggested that the two former interlocutors would spend three days in Srinagar and three days in Jammu and meet leaders of various political parties to ascertain their views on their report and the recommendations it embodies. The PTI report had even quoted Padgaonkar and suggested that it was none other than the former chief interlocutor who had briefed a section of media about their move after their meeting with Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde. According to this report, Dilip and Radha were to reach Srinagar today.
It was Chief Minister Omar Abdullah who rejected the media reports about the scheduled visit of Dilip and Radha. "They (Interlocutors) will not arrive in Valley," Omar told reporters on the sidelines of a function at Murran, Pulwama in reply to question. It was clear from his statement that his Government had not been taken into confidence by the former interlocutors or those on whose behalf they had decided to visit the State. In any case, it is heartening to note that they would stay put in Delhi and elsewhere and not visit the State to further vitiate its atmosphere.
Even earlier, there were reports to the effect that they would visit Kashmir to get feedback on their report. Some media reports had even quoted Dilip and Radha suggesting that they would rewrite the report. "We will delete from our report suggestions which the people of Kashmir do not appreciate and incorporate in it new suggestions," some of the media reports had suggested. Radha had, according to one report, even gone to the extent of telling a Kashmir-based media person that they (former interlocutors) would delete that portion from the report which dealt the reorganization of the State's administrative set up. She had referred to their suggestion regarding the formation of three regional councils in the State, one each for Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh.
Remember, it was on October 12, 2011 that the New Delhi-appointed controversial and biased interlocutors submitted their 178-page report to the then Union Home Minister P Chidambaram. The report was put on the Home Ministry website on May 24 this year for public scrutiny. The report had, among many other objectionable and controversial recommendations, suggested that Article 370 be accorded a "Special" position in the Indian Constitution and that the people of Kashmir (read Kashmiri Muslim leadership) must be conciliated by assuring them that the autonomous character of the State will be maintained, that a Constitutional committee be set up and charged with the responsibility of reviewing all the Central laws introduced in the State after 1952, that the State be accorded a differential treatment, that the State be maintained as one political unit and that three regional councils be constituted in the State within the autonomous Jammu and Kashmir. Besides, the report had recommended revocation of the AFSPA and similar other Acts. In fact, the interlocutors had urged the Union Government through their report that Jammu & Kashmir be given the status of a republic within the Indian Republic.
Almost all the Jammu and Ladakh-based parties, including the BJP, Bahujan Samajwadi Party, Panthers Party, Jammu State Morcha, Jammu State Morcha (Secular), to mention only a few, plus the RSS and the Panun Kashmir, organization of displaced Kashmiri Hindus, have rejected their report as divisive and anti-national. They have not crossed the line by using such strong words against the interlocutors. They have said, and continue to say, what these former interlocutors deserve. |
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