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| CM commends former interlocutors' exercise | | Workshops On Divisive Report | | Rustam
JAMMU, Aug 30: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, who on Tuesday told reporters at Murran, Pulwama, that former interlocutors - Dilip Padgaonkar and Radha Kumar - who are known for their close association with an American national of Kashmir origin and ISI agent Ghulam Nabi Fai ---were not visiting the State, on Wednesday appreciated their one-year-long exercise in Jammu & Kashmir. On Tuesday, he said: "They (interlocutors) will not arrive in Valley". This was what an English language daily published both from Srinagar and Jammu reported. A Government spokesman yesterday, however, contradicted the report and said a section of media had "twisted version of the Chief Minister's statement". He said that "what the Chief Minister had said was that Dilip Padgaonkar and Radha Kumar are no longer interlocutors and so are not coming to Jammu & Kashmir as interlocutors but as a part of the 'Delhi Policy Group". Radha controls this Group.
On Wednesday, when the interlocutors arrived in the Valley, obviously much to his surprise, he reportedly said: "The interlocutors report has been formulated after consultation with different groups across the State and discussions with various shades of opinion as such making it one of the most exhaustive exercises of its kind in the last two decades". He also reportedly said: "The report should form the basis to initiate a dialogue between the Centre and the State and pave the path of meeting the aspirations of the people of the State on the basis of a broader consensus that emerges from the process of the internal dialogue". It is important to note that the former interlocutors not only arrived in the Valley, but also met with the Chief Minister and Governor NN Vohra yesterday.
Two things are clear. One, Dilip and Radha had not taken the State Government into confidence before taking decision to visit the State and hold workshops on their roundly condemned report. They will hold workshop today in Kashmir and organize similar activity in Jammu on September 2. Had the Chief Minister or his Government been informed by the former controversial interlocutors well in time, he would not have said what he said and created for him an awkward situation. This also constitutes a sad reflection on the working of the State. Dilip and Radha were not that fool that they would think in terms of holding a workshop on their report in Srinagar without making adequate preparations, including selection of participants. They must have contacted some NC leaders also. Similarly, they must have also finalized the list of those selected few in Jammu or those who, according to them, would be quite convenient. Holding a seminar or a workshop is not an easy job. It requires many things.
Two, the Chief Minister wants the interlocutor's report to be the basis of discussion between the Centre and the State. The report, everyone knows, recommends for the State an autonomous status (read Republic of Jammu & Kashmir within the Republic of India). It also recommends the formation of a Constitutional committee charged with the responsibility of reviewing the Central Laws made applicable to the State after 1952 and says that its suggestions must be acceptable to all. Besides, it recommends a "special" position for Article 370. In other words, the report negates the very concept of India and gives legitimacy to the politics of separatism and communalism. This is the report the Chief Minister wants to be become the basis of a dialogue between the Centre and the State. It is quite understandable. After all, the NC stands for what the report has actually suggested. His reported statement that "the report should form the basis to initiate a dialogue between the Centre and the State and pave the path of meeting the aspirations of the people of the State on the basis of a broader consensus that emerges from the process of the internal dialogue" should clinch the whole issue and establish that he and his party want a solution that is acceptable to the majority community. How else should one interpret his broader consensus formulation?
It is indeed disturbing that Dilip and Radha are poking their nose in the affairs of the State with a view to vitiating its atmosphere. Equally disturbing is the fact that the Chief Minister has hailed their exercise as the most exhaustive one. It can also be said that Dilip and Radha are playing a mischief at the behest of their masters, who could be in Pakistan, in Kashmir and New Delhi. The possibility of involvement of New Delhi in this exercise cannot be over ruled. New Delhi these days is controlled by those whose concept of India is not similar to the concept of those who framed the Indian Constitution. It's horrible situation. It's is the most opportune time to dislodge those who are negating the idea of India and brazenly pursuing the line Mohammad Ali Jinnah pursued to ensure the communal partition of India in 1947. Don't blame Dilip and Radha. Blame those who are promoting and patronizing them. |
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