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| Jammu displayed a remarkable unity, boycotted former interlocutors | | Direct Action By BJYM, JULSSA & YLA | | RUSTAM
JAMMU, Sept 2: The Jammu and nation-centric parties, including the Jammu & Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Prof Chaman Lal Gupta-led group of seven MLAs and Jammu State Morcha (JSM) displayed a remarkable unity and boycotted the former interlocutors, Dilip Padgaonkar and Radha Kumar, who were in Jammu on Saturday and today to interact with leaders of political parties and other persons (read those considered convenient) to get feedback which was to be communicated to the Union Home Ministry in the form of a repprt. Besides these political parties and lawmakers, the Shiv Sena (Bal Thackeray), Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and a few other political groups rejected with contempt as anti-Jammu and anti-India the visiting former interlocutors. The Shiv Sena even burnt the effigies of Dilip. All these political parties and other political groups were one as far as their opposition to Dilip and Radha was concerned. The attitude of the associations of the internally-displaced Kashmiri Hindus was no different.
They through their press conferences and statements made it loud and clear that they are not only for the empowerment of Jammu Pradesh and Ladakh, but also for the complete integration with the Indian Union. They spoke from different platforms, but their stand was one. They not only rededicated themselves to the cause of the country, but also, in one voice, rejected the interlocutors' report saying it was utterly unacceptable to them, as it panders to Kashmiri separatists and communalists and those demanding autonomy for the State in the name of religion. It was not just an opposition to the visiting former interlocutors; it was, in fact, the Jammu's answer to those in Kashmir who have been seeking to drive the State away from New Delhi and establish in the segregated State a theocratic Government similar to the one the ardent believers in the concept of two-nation theory carved out of India in August 1947.
What the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BYJM), Jammu University Law School Students Association (JULSSA) and Young Lawyers Forum (YLF) activists did today at the venue of the meeting between the former interlocutors and a few persons could be termed as a revolt against them. They assaulted them and virtually made them to run away. Had there been no police protection, anything could have happened. Just look at the slogans that the agitated activists raised and see for yourself the nature of their anger against Dilip and Radha. They raised such slogans as "Bharat Mata Ki Jai", Go Back, Go Back Interlocutors", "Fai's agents Go Back, Go Back". It is a different story that Dilip and Radha returned to the venue under protection after about 45 minutes.
The response the former interlocutors evoked in Jammu during their two-day stay in the winter capital must make the Kashmiri leadership and the Congress-led Government at the Centre understand that the people of Jammu Pradesh are nationalist from the core of their heart and that they shall never deviate from the path they have been treading since decades. But more than that, this type of response must make the Jammu-based Congress and NC leaders and MLAs to understand that they are simply spoiling their political career by dancing to the tunes of their Kashmiri masters.
As for the former interlocutors, who were virtually treated by the Government as State guests, the response they evoked in Kashmir as well as Jammu must have made them understand that they are unwanted and that there is hardly any taker for them. The reasons are, of course, different. If they have any self-respect, they will never visit the state again. They may say, and they have, in fact, said, that the many political parties did not meet them for certain reasons, but the fact of the matter is that nobody, except a few individuals in Srinagar and Jammu, liked them. In any case, the message from Jammu was loud and clear: No meeting with those whose credentials are doubtful.
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