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| Mr Sinha, your report is biased, lop-sided, provocative | | Kashmir, Kashmir & Kashmir | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 10: BJP Yahwant Sinha's five-member team, which visited Srinagar last month for three days and met with every Tom, Dick and Harry, the other day, submitted its 6-page report on their assessment of the Kashmir situation to the Union Home Minister, Rajnath Singh. The report is biased, lop-sided and based on the feedback the team got from those who were responsible for creating a mess in the Kashmir Valley for achieving ulterior objective: separation not only of Kashmir but of the entire state of Jammu and Kashmir from India. It was biased and lop-sided in the sense that it only focused on Kashmir and its particular group of people and completely ignored other regions and other people of the state, who are known for the commitment to India and vehemently opposed to the separatist movement in the Valley.
The report has asked that the perception that Kashmir and Kashmiris are "mere tools to be used for electoral purposes" needs to be dispelled.
"Kashmiris believe that today Indian politics has taken such a turn that there is no willingness to listen to even demands for autonomy. Today, (the) Kashmir issue is being seen as Jammu versus Kashmir," the Sinha team has said in its report.
Discussing in detail the causes responsible for the "immediate and long-time anger" among the people in the Valley, which has been in turmoil in the wake of the lawful killing of Hizbul Mujahideen Commander Burhan Wani on July 8, the team has said that "among reasons for the immediate anger cited by the stakeholders in the Valley are excessive use of force by security forces during Wani's funeral procession, and the use of pellet guns thereafter".
According to the report, "the Kashmiris pointed out that pellet guns are 'not used in the rest of India even under grave provocation like the Jat agitation in Haryana, the protests against Cauvery water sharing in Karnataka, or the Patel agitation in Gujarat". It has further noted, "The fact that the use of pellet guns was reserved only for Kashmir elicited the most amount of anger against India and Indian security forces in the people we talked to".
The report has also asked Jammu & Kashmir CM Mehbooba Mufti and the PDP-BJP coalition government in the state to start the process of "reopening schools and, as a precursor to this, release all first-time offenders, schoolchildren and minors arrested under the Public Safety Act".
Besides, the team has suggested the formation of a judicial commission to identify those policemen and other security forces personnel who, according to the Kashmiri leaders, "used excessive force" against the Kashmiri protestors. The report nowhere refers to the mischief-mongers in Kashmir. Nor does it refer to Jammu and Ladakh. It does refer to Jammu but in a different context: Jammu versus Kashmir approach should e avoided. This is highly objectionable. Jammu and Ladakh are not colonies which could be exploited and neglected to please the third region. Jammu and Ladakh are bigger regions and house half of the state's population, which cannot be ignored by any yardstick. It is disturbing that there are such former foreign minister who ignores the paramount national interest and vouch for a line that unsettles the settled in Jammu & Kashmir. |
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