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| We haven't been able to build on | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
NEW DELHI, July 11: Army chief, Gen V K Singh on Sunday said the "basic reason" for the prevailing tension in Jammu and Kashmir was the inability to build on the "gains" that had been made.
"So far as army is concerned, I think as security forces, a lot of work has been done. The situation has been brought to a particular level when other initiatives should have started to make way for betterment," he said in an interview to a TV channel.
"The Kashmir situation has been tense for quite some time and the reasons are many. The basic reason being that we have not been able to build on the gains that have been made," Gen Singh said when asked about the measures required to check the violence in the valley.
Elaborating on the steps required, he said, "First of all, there has to be concerted efforts to identify the miscreants. There are few people who are passing instructions on phone. They have to be identified. There are people financing the protests. They must be identified."
"The separatists are able to garner support and I think the population is fairly gullible, they take it as they see," he said.
"After that, starts how do we connect with the common man and build confidence in him so that he stays away from all this. Now this is both an administrative measure as well as it depends on the elected leaders out there at various levels," the army chief asserted."And last but not the least, if you want to impose curfew or something for containing a particular area, it has to be total. You can't have a half-hearted measure," he said.
Asked if army was deployed as a deterrent to curb the violence, he said, "I think there was a sort of loss of confidence and they thought that army should be seen more prominently."
"We said yes to the deployment as we are as much concerned as anyone else. Army is already there. It is already carrying out operations with CRPF and police in conjunction with the state. So we are there for various things and we are helping them," he added.
After almost two decades, army was called in to quell the protesters in Kashmir where at least 15 people, mostly protesters, have died in clashes with police in the past three weeks.
Chief minister Omar Abdullah had Saturday said that army, which was deployed in certain parts of Srinagar last week to assist the civil administration, might be withdrawn from the streets soon.
He said the state government was using army in the "extreme periphery" and the presence of the force was not more than six or eight columns (600-800 personnel).
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