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Review central laws applicable in Kashmir: interlocutors
Thursday May 24, 2012 03:20:21 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: A
constitutional committee should review all central laws extended
to Jammu and Kashmir and make permanent article 370 of the
constitution that grants the state special status, a three-member
team of interlocutors led by journalist Dileep Padgaonkar has
recommended.
The panel had been tasked with ascertaining the views
of the people on resolving the Kashmir tangle.
In its report, submitted to Home Minister P. Chidambaram in
October 2011 and made public Thursday, the interlocutors also
noted that there was consensus in the border state that its
distinctive status guaranteed by article 370 must be upheld. The
report also said its erosion over the decades must be re-appraised
to vest it with such powers as the state needs to promote the
people's welfare on its own terms.
"To build on the consensus, we recommend that a constitutional
committee be set up to review all central acts and articles of the
constitution of India extended to the state after signing of the
1952 agreement," the interlocutors said in their 180-page report.
The 1952 agreement lays down the terms of engagement between the
central government and the Kashmir government.
The other members of the interlocutors panel were academicians M.M.
Ansari and Radha Kumar.
The panel wants the constitutional committee to be headed by an
eminent personality who enjoys the esteem of the state's and the
nation's people, and it should include constitutional experts as
members. The committee should submit its report within six months
and this will be binding on all stake-holders in Kashmir, the
report said.
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