One more all-party meet without result
The Union home ministry appeared clueless on the crisis in Jammu and Kashmir on Monday. This became evident after it failed to produce an action plan at the third meeting of the all-party delegation.
By ET Bureau |
NEW DELHI : The Union home ministry seems clueless on the crisis in Jammu and Kashmir. This was evident on Monday when it failed to produce an action plan at the third meeting of the all-party delegation here.
Concerned over the huge political cost of the continued troubles in the border state, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has entered the frame and convened an all-party meeting on Wednesday.
The prime ministerial intervention comes in the backdrop of the political parties subscribing to different ideological positions expressing unanimity on resolving the problem in J&K and home minister Shivraj Patil���s inability to fashion a concrete action plan.
As for the separatists��� propaganda about an economic blockade in Kashmir, the BJP has already dismissed it as a ���myth��� concocted by the secessionists to distract the people���s attention from the ���Congress��� government���s surrender��� to them over the land transfer to SASB. ���There is no blockade.
It has been invented by separatists who, after having been caught on the wrong foot, are seeking to guilt-trip the Shri Amarnath Sangharsh Samiti into calling off the Jammu agitation which is just and has been completely peaceful,��� says senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley.
The all-party meeting, which toured Jammu and Srinagar over the last two days, is set to have a fresh round of talks with the prime minister on Wednesday as part of the efforts to find a solution to the J&K crisis. Among the suggestions thrown up at the meetings so far is falling back upon a 2005 court judgement that authorised the shrine board to build temporary facilities for pilgrims during the yatra at Baltal.
This would be coupled with declaration of the executive orders transferring 100 acres of land to the board and then revoking the same, as null and void.
However, the Shri Amarnath Sangarsh Samiti, which is spearheading the agitation in Jammu, has turned down the formula. ���Nothing short of the restoration of land back to the shrine board is acceptable,��� samiti convenor Leela Karan Sharma has warned.
The all-party delegation has, during its deliberations so far, agreed upon the need improve facilities for the Amarnath pilgrims. There is also consensus that the charge of economic blockade of the Valley has no substance at all, and that it was a mere ruse employed by the separatists to open a lifeline to Pak-held Muzaffarabad.
Concerned over the huge political cost of the continued troubles in the border state, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has entered the frame and convened an all-party meeting on Wednesday.
The prime ministerial intervention comes in the backdrop of the political parties subscribing to different ideological positions expressing unanimity on resolving the problem in J&K and home minister Shivraj Patil���s inability to fashion a concrete action plan.
As for the separatists��� propaganda about an economic blockade in Kashmir, the BJP has already dismissed it as a ���myth��� concocted by the secessionists to distract the people���s attention from the ���Congress��� government���s surrender��� to them over the land transfer to SASB. ���There is no blockade.
It has been invented by separatists who, after having been caught on the wrong foot, are seeking to guilt-trip the Shri Amarnath Sangharsh Samiti into calling off the Jammu agitation which is just and has been completely peaceful,��� says senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley.
The all-party meeting, which toured Jammu and Srinagar over the last two days, is set to have a fresh round of talks with the prime minister on Wednesday as part of the efforts to find a solution to the J&K crisis. Among the suggestions thrown up at the meetings so far is falling back upon a 2005 court judgement that authorised the shrine board to build temporary facilities for pilgrims during the yatra at Baltal.
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This would be coupled with declaration of the executive orders transferring 100 acres of land to the board and then revoking the same, as null and void.
However, the Shri Amarnath Sangarsh Samiti, which is spearheading the agitation in Jammu, has turned down the formula. ���Nothing short of the restoration of land back to the shrine board is acceptable,��� samiti convenor Leela Karan Sharma has warned.
The all-party delegation has, during its deliberations so far, agreed upon the need improve facilities for the Amarnath pilgrims. There is also consensus that the charge of economic blockade of the Valley has no substance at all, and that it was a mere ruse employed by the separatists to open a lifeline to Pak-held Muzaffarabad.
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