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| Former interlocutors at the receiving end | | Will Jammu also go the Kashmir way? | | Rustam
JAMMU, Aug 31: In Kashmir, two former Government of India-appointed interlocutors journalist Dilip Padgaonkar and university professor Radha Kumar were mocked by all or nearly all the participants in workshop on their report on Jammu and Kashmir held at the Sher-e-Kashmir International Convention Centre, Srinagar, on Thursday. The Kashmiri participants rejected the document of the former interlocutors, who now call themselves resource persons, circulated in the workshop hall for getting feedback to be communicated to the Central Government for consideration. The document was nothing but a broad summery of their recommendations. They rejected the document, nay the report, saying that the interlocutors failed to address the real issue and that their whole exercise was meaningless. Unlike Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, the participants termed as a futile exercise. They took on the former and amenable interlocutors, notwithstanding the fact that the report was out-and-out Valley-centric and patently anti-Jammu and anti-Ladakh. What lays enshrined in the report could be termed as a negation of India as a nation and spectacular triumph of those who had been seeking to wreck the Indian State for satisfying their communal urge.
Will Jammu also go the Kashmir way by rejecting out-of-hand the interlocutors' report? The Jammu & Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP) yesterday made it public that it will not take part in the workshop to be held in Jammu. In fact, a number of top-ranking leaders of the JKNPP, including MLA and former Minister Harsh Dev Singh, yesterday held a press conference and declared that none from the party will participate in the scheduled workshop. They expressed themselves against the former interlocutors and said that they consider their recommendations reactionary, backward-looking, fundamentally bad and injurious and that what they wanted was complete integration into India. They attacked the former interlocutors for their views on Article 370, AFSPA, pre-1953 politico-constitutional status for the State, formation of Constitutional committee and so on. On the contrary, they reiterated their demand that the State be reorganized on a regional basis so that the aspirations of the people of Jammu are fulfilled. They, in short, said that the former interlocutors' suggestions and recommendations are against the "national mood" and that they showed "disrespect and disregard to the sentiments of Jammu people".
The JKNPP has set an example for others who hold similar views on the former interlocutors and their report. It will be seen if they, like the JKNPP, also refuse to give any legitimacy to the so-called resource persons by rejecting their invitation. People will surely appreciate them if they behave like the JKNPP behaved and showed political maturity yesterday. |
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