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Centre's interlocutors on J&K face protests in Jammu
9/2/2012 11:29:38 PM
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Jammu, Sept 2 : Centre's former interlocutors on Jammu and Kashmir, who were scheduled to meet several delegations to discuss the recommendations made in their report, on Sunday faced protests by the activists of various organisations following which they were forced to return back from the meeting venue.
However, later, after the protesters were dispersed from the venue, the interlocutors held their conference with the delegations.
As head of the interlocutors group, Dilip Padgaonkar and Prof Radha Kumar arrived at the venue this morning, the activists of Bhartiya Janta Vuya Morcha(BJYM), Sangrash Samiti Kranti Dal and Panun Kashmir staged protest demonstrations against them compelling them to leave the area.
Meanwhile, the protesters, while talking to the reporters here, said that the interlocutors must return back as their reports were rejected by them. "BJP has already rejected the report and so we do not want to see them here," BJYM State President Munish Sharma said. State BJP spokesperson Jitendra Singh said: "The report favours separatists and questions integration of Jammu and Kashmir with India, mentions Pakistan Occupied Kashmir and Pakistan Administered Kashmir and has inadequate reference of discrimination with Jammu and Ladakh region. Hence we are boycotting their meeting."
All Jammu-centric political parties are also boycotting the meeting.
The former interlocutors are touring the state to garner feedback from a cross-section of people on their report submitted to the union home ministry last year.
Senior leader of the Panthers Party and MLA Harshdev Singh said the report "does not carry anything to address the years of discrimination against Jammu region and has no mention about our concerns for neglecting the region in all spheres". Describing the report of interlocutors as "anti-National and anti-Jammu," Jammu State Morcha MLA Ashwini Kumar also announced the boycott of the meeting with Padgaonkar and Kumar. Thakur Randhir Singh, head of the state Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) also announced a boycott on the grounds that the report had no mention of discrimination with Jammu. A Congress party delegation and social groups Sunday met the two former interlocutors to give their opinions on the report. A group of three interlocutors - Padgaonkar, Kumar and former Information Commissioner M.M. Ansari - was formed October 2010.
After extensive deliberations with political parties, the Jammu and Kashmir government, members of civil society and others (except separatist groups), the interlocutors submitted their report to the then union home minister P. Chidambram in October 2011.
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Wednesday said that the report has been formulated after consultation with different groups across the state and discussions with various shades of opinion has made this report an "exhaustive exercise of its kind in the last two decades".
Abdullah 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 internal dialogue." There was no action on the report after it was submitted in October 2011 and made public in May 2012. After meeting Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde, Padgaonkar and Kumar are seeking feedback on the report from political parties and members of civil society in Srinagar on Aug 29 and in Jammu Aug 2 to Sep 4.The feedback will be submitted to union home ministry.
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