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| Fotedar drops a political bomb in Srinagar | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, June 19 : A senior AICC leader,Makhan Lal Fotedar,has dropped a political bomb when he hinted that had Mufti Mohd.Sayeed been allowed to complete six years there would have been a different situation in Jammu and Kashmir.Well a sentence dropped from the mouth of Fatedar,who has remained close to the Gandhi family for years together,has significant meaning.
In a recent interview,given by him during his stay in Srinagar,Fotedar seems to believe that former Pakistan President, Gen.Parvez Musharraf, had come up with a four-point proposal on Kashmir which included converting the LOC into a permanent border and increased traffic and trade between the two sids on the LOC.Again he wants to give credence to an impression that has gone round that India and Pakistan were on the verge of some settlement between 2004 and 2007.
And again his one line utterance that had the Mufti been allowed to continue for six years the situation in Jammu and Kashmir would have changed may not be ignored by the National Conferenc leadership.Fotedar has preferred to stop there and then.He does not explain as to how the situation would have changed had the Mufti completed six years.Political observers believe that Mufti Mohd.Sayeed,as Chief Minister,had tried to persuade Delhi to discuss with Islamabad the issue of Kashmir in the context of the four-point proposal mooted by Gen.Musharraf.
In fact the PDP's self-rule document is nearer to Musharraf's proposal than the greater autonomy concept of the National Conference.No doubt Delhi had rejected Musharraf's proposal,had the Mufti continued to head the coalition Government he would have campaigned for a discussion on the four-point proposal so that a via media was adopted for settling the Kashmir issue.
Well it is not certain whether Fotedar wanted to convey that had the Mufti been allowed to continue as Chief Minister the security situation would have changed or he had firm perception that had the Mufti remained in office for the six-year term Delhi and Islamabad would have clinched the Kashmir issue.It would be better if Fotedar cleared the mist over his brief interview.
It is no longer a secret that Fotedar has remained a close associate of Mufti Mohd.Sayeed when the latter headed the PCC.Whenever Fotedar visited Srinagar from Delhi he would see to it that he spent some time with his political associate.Reports said that when the Congress decided to form a coalition Government in alliance with the PDP Fotedar had a vital role in giving shape to the alliance.In the past the Congress and the National Conference have forged alliance on a number of occasions.The two have shared power in the past and the two have locked horns on a number of occasions.
When the idea of forging an alliance with the PDP for sharing power in Jammu and Kashmir was mooted in 2002 there were number of Congress leaders in the state and in the centre who were opposed to it on the plea that the Mufti had ditched the Congress and joined the Jan Morcha in 1987.But Fotedar had argued that since the Mufti had the political upbringing in the Congress he could be tried for sharing power.Atleast Fotedar proved right when the Congress and the PDP had no problem during the first three years when the Mufti headed the coalition Government.
There are others who treat Fotedar's cryptic statement meaningful in the sense that the Congress can revive its alliance with the PDP if it found going with the National Conference a difficult exercise.But it is too early to have such calculation.
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