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Kashmir
interlocutors meet BJP leaders
Monday January 17, 2011 07:29:56 PM,
IANS
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Jammu: For the first
time since they were appointed over three months ago, the three
interlocutors on Kashmir held a meeting with Bharatiya Janata
Party leaders here Monday. The party had announced its boycott of
the government-appointed interlocutors during their first visit of
the state in October last year.
The three interlocutors - journalist Dileep Padgaonkar, noted
international studies professor Radha Kumar and former information
commissioner M.M. Ansari - drove to the BJP office in a congested
Jammu locality, Kacchi Chawani, and interacted with the senior
leaders.
The BJP's state unit president Shamsher Singh Manhas and his
predecessor and MLA Ashok Khajuria were among those who spoke to
the interlocutors and told them what they felt was the way forward
for Jammu and Kashmir.
"Article 370, which gives special status to Jammu and Kashmir
within the Indian union, should be scrapped. That would end all
doubts over the issue and there would be no problem," Manhas told
the interlocutors, according to a party official.
The interlocutors took copious notes of the BJP leaders' views and
also asked them about the purpose of the party's plans to unfurl
the national tricolour in Srinagar Jan 26, to which Manhas is
reported to have responded that the move was to "underscore
national unity".
"We believe that Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India,
as citizens of this country we have the right to hoist the flag
anywhere in the country," he said.
The visit of the interlocutors Monday - their fourth to the state
- is in sharp contrast to their first visit when the BJP leaders
had raised objection to their statements and decided not to meet
them. The intelocutors are visiting Jammu region for the second
time.
At that time Manhas had said that the "interlocutors were speaking
like separatists". He was against the observations of Padgaonkar
that "Kashmir issue had to be settled by talking to Pakistan".
The BJP believes that Kashmir issue is settled and the only issue
to be settled was the vacation of the territory of the state
"illegally held by Pakistan".
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