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BJP resolution against Kashmir
interlocutors' report
Thursday May 24, 2012 08:32:54 PM,
IANS
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Mumbai:
The Bharatiya Janata Party Thursday passed a resolution against
the Jammu and Kashmir interlocutors' report, saying that it was
against Kashmir's integration with India.
The resolution, which was not part of the agenda of the BJP's
national executive meet here, was taken up after the report became
public Thursday.
The report has recommended the setting up of a constitutional
committee to review all central laws extended to the state and
making permanent article 370 of the constitution that grants the
state special status.
"There was a sense that we have been totally let down by the
report. The BJP rejects the report," party spokesperson Nirmala
Sitharaman said.
The resolution was moved by senior party leader Arun Jaitley.
"Within 36 hours of the (parliament) session's conclusion, the
report is brought in public domain. It should have been presented
in the parliament," Sitharaman said.
"The report is in total denial of certain harsh realities," she
said.
"It fails to acknowledge that article 370 is a psychological
barrier in the integration of Kashmir with the rest of India.
Rather than abolishing it, the report asks to make the status
permanent," she said.
She said the report did not point out that Kashmir was an integral
part of India and instead used the term "Pakistan-administered
Kashmir" for "Pakistan-occupied Kashmir".
"It weakens India's position as per the resolution passed by
parliament in 1994. It is really worrying," she said.
The 1994 resolution had said that Jammu and Kashmir was an
integral part of India.
She said the report ignored the rehabilitation of Sikhs and Hindus
who had to flee the Kashmir valley. "All it offered to them is
that they can come and visit the valley when there is peace," she
said.
She also called the suggestion to review all legislations after
1952 as disastrous.
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