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| Aiyar demands parallel dialogue with Pak, Hurriyat | | For Cong, Pak is innocent | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, July 22: Senior Congress leader and former Union Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar, who only recently had said in Pakistan that if it wished to solve the Kashmir problem, it should remove the Narendra Modi government and bring back to power the Congress, on Friday again courted controversy by making controversial statements on Pakistan and Jammu and Kashmir.
On the one hand, Aiyar declared Pakistan innocent and asked the BJP-led NDA Government not to blame Pakistan for Kashmir unrest, and, on the other, asked New Delhi to start what he called parallel dialogue with Pakistan and Kashmiri separatists.
"India must stop blaming Pakistan for Kashmir unrest and start an unconditional dialogue with both Pakistan and separatist leadership in Kashmir," he told a Srinagar-based news gathering agency, adding that "blaming Pakistan will would not solve the problem for India instead it will get aggravated if India continued to keep on blaming Pakistan for Kashmir crisis.
"There is an urgent need for parallel dialogue. India must start dialogue with Pakistan and at the same time it should engage 'disgruntled' separatist leadership. The fact is that whenever India engages Pakistan into dialogue, the tempers in Kashmir have cooled down," he further said.
Aiyar further said that there was so much dissatisfaction among people of Kashmir and it is high time we take measures to solve the Kashmir imbroglio".
Regarding the PDP-BJP alliance, he said: "it is right time for PDP to distance itself from BJP and seek support from Congress, National Conference and other independent members. People in Kashmir are highly dissatisfied with BJP".
His controversial statements came a day after a number of Congress MPs in Lok Sabha openly identified them completely with Kashmiri separatists and one of the Congress MP even talked about referendum in Kashmir. And a day before, another senior Congress leader, Member Rajya Sabha and former Union Home Minister P Chidambaram had pitched for greater autonomy for Kashmir and also demanded removal of AFSPA. He had gone to the extent of saying that India would suffer huge losses if it didn't grant maximum autonomy to Kashmir.
All this only suggest that the Congress has raised a banner of revolt against India. The Congress will get totally decimated if it didn't review its stand on Kashmir, Kashmiri separatists and autonomy. |
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