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| Problem in Jammu, dialogue with Hurriyat leaders | | Governor's Address | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 19: The PDP-BJP coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday offered an olive branch to separatist groups. It said it was willing to start what it called a "meaningful and sustained dialogue" with all internal stakeholders to evolve a consensus on the resolution of all outstanding issues inflicting the state. "The (PDP-BJP) coalition will facilitate and help initiate a sustained and meaningful dialogue with all internal stakeholders, which will include all political groups, irrespective of their ideological views and predilections," Jammu and Kashmir Governor NN Vohra said in his address to a joint session of the legislature on the opening day of its budget session in Jammu. "This dialogue," he said, "will seek to build a broad-based consensus on the resolution of all outstanding issues of Jammu and Kashmir."
The State Governor also invoked former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's vow to resolve the Kashmir issue within the framework of "insaaniyat" and said: "To enlarge the constituency of peace and deepen its societal moorings, the coalition government will take well-considered political initiatives." He further said: "The NDA government headed by Vajpayee had initiated a dialogue process with all political groups, including Hurriyat Conference, in the spirit of insaaniyat, Kashmiriyat aur jamhooriyat" and held out a promise that the PDP-BJP coalition government will pursue the same line and "facilitate and help initiate a sustained and meaningful dialogue" with all "internal stakeholders".
The Governor's address has not gone down well with the very vast nationalist constituency in the state, especially the people of Jammu province and refugees of all varieties, including the over three lakh internally displaced Kashmiri Hindus. They have termed the Governor's address as essentially Kashmir and separatists'-centric and expressed the view that the Governor's address overlooked the fact that it was the people of Jammu province and Ladakh region, besides the over 1.5 million refugees, including refugees from West Pakistan, Pakistan-occupied-Jammu and Kashmir and the Kashmir Valley, who have suffered enormous losses during all these years of the state's accession with India at the hands of the Kashmiri leadership and the powers-that-be at the centre. They further opined that it was the people of Jammu and Ladakh and these refugees who were denied their due share in the political, social and economic processes during all these years and that it was Kashmir and the Kashmiri leadership which ruled the roost during all these years, thus creating a sense of alienation in the nationalist constituency in the state - a constituency that all along sacrificed its all to ensure that Kashmir didn't go out of India.
What shocked the nationalist constituency in the state all the more was the suggestion that it was time for the authorities to engage with the Valley-based Hurriyat leaders to find ways to resolve the so-called Kashmir issue. "The Hurriyat leaders are not the stakeholders; they are seditionists and Pakistani agents. They are the killers and destroyers of peace. They represent only a very small constituency of anti-national forces, as also Pakistan. They have only bloodied and convulsed the state's political scene and hounded out of the Valley all the non-Muslims to establish there a particular type of dispensation. They need to be booked and brought to justice for the crimes they have committed against the Indian state and humanity. They cannot be considered stakeholders," they further said, and added that "the need of the time is to engage with the nationalist constituency in the state, as it stands totally alienated from the powers-that-be in the state and at the centre".
The views of the nationalist constituency in the state just cannot be dismissed or brushed aside, as they and the people of the country, who have made supreme sacrifices in the state to preserve the nation's unity and integrity and promote the country's sovereign interests, are the real stakeholders. The authorities in the state and at the centre would be well advised to study the social composition of the ongoing separatist movement in parts of the Valley before starting a dialogue process with the Hurrriyat whose area of influence is limited to a few pockets in the Valley proper and who have been leading a luxurious life at the cost of the common Kashmiri people and the Indian state. "The authorities must take steps to end the alienation in Jammu and the refugee camps," they said, and added that the "initiation of dialogue with the Hurriyat leaders will further add to the difficulties of the country in the Kashmir Valley and help Pakistan achieve its anti-India goal". |
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