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| PM Modi tells Omar led-delegation nothing outside Constitution | | Cong insults Jammu, Ladakh | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Aug 22: NC working president and leader of opposition in the assembly Omar Abdullah, along with a dozen NC, Congress and NC leaders, had been in Delhi to meet central leaders and seek their support to the Kashmiri cause. The Omar Abdullah-led delegation met with the Union President Pranab Mukharjee, CPI-M leader Sitaram Yechury and AICC vice-president Rahul Gandhi and a few others and apprised them of the situation in Kashmir. The delegation also submitted a memorandum to the Union President - memorandum which sought dialogue with stakeholders in Kashmir so that the over-40-day long impasse was broken.
On Monday, the delegation met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his official residence and also submitted to him another memorandum. An official handout issued by the PMO after the meeting in the morning said that the Prime Minister told the delegation that he was pained over the developments in the Valley and that the solution to the unrest had to be within the Indian Constitutional framework.
"There has to be a dialogue and we need to find a permanent and lasting solution to the problem within the framework of the Constitution," the statement from the PMO said, and added that those who lost their lives during recent disturbances are part of us, our nation. "Whether the lives lost are of our youth, security personnel or police, it distresses us…His (Narendra Modi) government and the nation stand with the people of Jammu and Kashmir and suggested that all political parties should reach out to the people and convey the same," the statement further said.
The meeting took place at a time when the Kashmir Valley had already remained under strict curfew for the 45th day without any brake. Kashmir has been in turmoil since July 8. Kashmir has been witnessing clashes between stone-throwers/pro-azadi crowds and security forces since then. About 68 people have been killed in firing by forces in the weeks of unrest. Thousands have been injured, mostly by pellet firing.
Now that the Prime Minister told the Omar Abdullah-led delegation that the solution has to be within the Constitution, the question arises what will the NC leader and other Kashmiri leaders do now. They hate and despise any suggestion that talks about the solution with the constitutional framework. The fact is that Omar Abdullah and company will return empty handed to Kashmir.
In the meantime, AICC spokesperson Manish Tiwari today insulted the people of Jammu and Ladakh by giving the nation to understand that the entire nation was disturbed and the people of Jammu and Ladakh were part of the ongoing movement in the Valley.
Addressing press conference in the afternoon, Tiwari attacked the Prime Minister for his inconsistent Kashmir policy, pitched for dialogue with those who didn't belong to mainstream politics and insulted Jammu and Ladakh. The Congress, in fact, asked the Modi Government to start dialogue process with the Hurriyat leaders. Interestingly, JKPCC spokesperson Ravinder Sharma had on Sunday taken a different line: he had urged the Union Government to start dialogue with "mainstream" leaders. |
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