Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 24: Urging upon the Union Government to ensure equal involvement of the people of Jammu region in any dialogue process in respect of J&K State, chairman of JKNPP and former Minister Harshdev Singh said that the nationalist people of the region could no longer be ignored while taking any decisions for resolving prevailing crisis.
“Don’t take the people of Jammu region for granted”, asserted Harshdev while commenting upon the Union Home Minister’s two-day visit to Kashmir in total disregard of the genuine aspirations of the people of this deprived and much humiliated region. He said that though it was essential to take stock of the prevalent crisis in the Valley but the Home Minister needed to have spared some time for Jammu as well as all three regions of the State were affected by the present turmoil. He said that the Home Minister needed to have interacted in Jammu with social, political organizations and civil society whose positive co-operation had prevented the situation from further deterioration.
While calling for an all party meet on J&K State a whole to be headed by the Prime Minister, Harshdev said that a consensus was required to be evolved in the presence of the Prime Minister and implemented in letter and spirit. He said that cosmetic exercises conducted in the past and non-implementation of the decisions had eroded the sanctity of such meetings. He said that during 2010-11, several working groups had been formed by the Union Govt for J&K but not a single recommendation had been implemented till date. He said that holding meets merely for public consumption and media publicity was not going to serve any purpose until and unless, concrete steps were initiated to translate the decisions into action.
Mr Singh said that Union Govt ought to launch a full throttle campaign against Pakistan’s acts of war in Kashmir and its overt and covert support to terrorism on our soil. He said that India further needed to seriously take up the issue of declaration of Pakistan as a terrorist State and imposition of worldwide sanctions against this rogue State. He lambasted the highly defensive approach of the Central BJP leadership who had assured zero tolerance against militancy, subversion and terrorism but had surrendered before such elements merely to share power in Kashmir with PDP. He called for immediate imposition of Governor Rule in J&K.
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