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| Jammu, Ladakh may be overlooked yet again? | | All-party delegation | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Aug 30: It's now official. Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh will lead an All-Party Delegation to the restive Kashmir and it will start its visit on September 4 and return to Delhi the following day. The delegation will meet "maximum possible number of stakeholders" and Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has been informed to this effect. Governor NN Vohra, too, has asked Amitabh Mattoo, political advisor to Chief Minister, to do the groundwork.
While it is clear that the All-Party Delegation would visit Srinagar and stay there for full day and full night, it is yet not clear if the Union Home Minister would also visit Jammu and Ladakh, the state's two other regions where the people have been suffering huge losses because of the sins committed by jihadis or theo-fascists in Kashmir.
Rajnath Singh had ignored both the regions during his last two visits. He spent three days in Srinagar and didn't think it politically prudent to also visit Jammu and Ladakh to know as to what the people of these two regions wanted or didn't want. The exclusion of Jammu and Ladakh from his tour programmes had outraged the people of these two regions for obvious reasons.
However, a vague report did suggest that the delegation may visit Jammu on September 5 for a couple of hours while on its way to Delhi. It's clear that it would just be a formality. For, what would this delegation achieve if it were to spend only an hour or so in this region. Jammu and Ladakh need special care and attention as they are the most neglected regions of the state.
There are also reports that a number of central leaders have planned to visit Srinagar and they include Karan Singh, Congress leader and former Union Home Minister P Chidambaram, CPI-M general secretary Sitaram Yechury and so on. They will visit Srinagar on their own and reports suggest that they would meet Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Yasin Malik and other few separatists to feel their pulse or to know what they want as if India doesn't know what they want. Leader of Opposition Ghulam Nabi Azad is also reaching Srinagar.
The whole point is that all the central leaders are concerned with the over-fed, over-appeased and over-developed Kashmir and that they have hardly any place in their scheme of things for the oppressed, suppressed and ignored people of these two regions. It is this indifferent attitude that would ultimately lead to the division of the state. |
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