Shimmering
package
Sir,
One
million dollar questions for
intellectuals, academician, jurists of
the country is whether the shimmering
package 24000 crores announced and
allocated by the PM for the state during
his recent visit to the valley will
really dose the anguish, sense of
alienation in this strife-torn state of
J&K to restore its pristine glory. I
owe an answer for it.
We want
political solution to bail out the state
from terrorism, insecurity and
uncertainty, what is now on the ground
has a background of the past legacy. The
simmering resentment for the past fifty
years is sprouting its seeds consuming
unimaginable toll of human lives, gaining
momentum, gathering explosive to ignite
fires in the volatile pocket of the
Kashmir. Even our PM was greeted and
welcomed with the exploding of grenades
notwithstanding the fact the visit was
most ostensibly hyped a Peace visit.
The
package can be likened to a ramshackle
house to be decorated in desolation. The
economic package delivered is to mitigate
the hunger and not the anger gaining
currency unabatedly.
It is a
sad fact that our leaders have not learnt
any thing from the past fifty years or
they willfully play ostrich to befuddle
the masses killing their conscience.
History
stands witness to the fact that Kashmir
has undergone a series and battery of
tests, both on land and lips, and each
test has given a foul, pungent smell
difficult to breathe.
We have
tried all the packages, methods
supplementing the state liberally with
sumptuous flow of money to stabilize the
economy, to contain the anti sloganeering
elements and at each stage we have to eat
the humble pie. The feelers thrown in
kind and cash to earn the confidence has
fetched no desired dividends. The
attempts made have proved nothing short
of carving lines on the water.
The worst
that has happened to the state in the
last ten years of turmoil was the
disintegration of aborigines, dismantling
an edifice of rich culture and heritage,
weaning away the celestial ray that
mesmerized our Bapu Ji.
We need to
try, understand and explain in lucid and
intellectual terms the cause and nature
of this conflict. A political solution
can alone nail the ailment, the only
answer for all the ailments of J&K
State.
The
immediate need is to evolve peace option
to be carried forward to its logical end.
*Accept
LOC as the defact border between India
and Pakistan
*Accept
Kashmir a issue, a political problem that
merits political solution.
* Involve
all the relevant parties of Kashmir in
the dialogue.
* Involve
intellectuals from the state as
interlocutors.
* Accept
the demand of Hurryat to move to Pakistan
in pursuit of peace.
*
Constitute a team of intellectuals from
the state possessing sterling qualities
to interact with the leaders of PAK, in a
viable method to learn and search for
permanent peace in the state.
Every
Right implies a responsibility and every
effort a moral duty.
Yours
etc...
Rishi Mahajan
Via e-mail
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