Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Oct 26: Former Union Minister and veteran Congress leader Prof Saifuddin Soz has said that some people in Kashmir and Delhi have started making statements on the appointment of interlocutor by the Centre and they are sure to make the job of former IB officer, Dineshwar Sharma more difficult in Kashmir.
In a press statement here Prof Soz said if the Union Home Minister, Rajnath Singh is incharge of the process of dialogue in Kashmir, then he should ensure that he remains in control of the process and asserts his position so that unpalatable utterances do not cause difficulties in the process of dialogue. For success or failure, the credit or discredit must go to one person and that is Home Minister of India.
Former PCC chief further said that here in Kashmir, some of the politicians have started giving advise to the Hurriyat Conference leaders which doesn’t seem to be palatable. Such people must understand that the people of Kashmir know better their leaders for what they did or said on many occasions in the past.
Prof Soz expressed that the opinion leaders in the opposite camp, dubbed as separatists have their own ideas to express and similarly, the mainstream leaders know better the position they want to take for themselves.
He opined that the Union of India had shown its caliber amply to start a dialogue in 1986, in right earnest, straightaway with Lal Denga to end the crisis in Mizoram. The Govt must adopt a proper mechanism, otherwise, the situation is far different from what it happen to be in Mizoram.
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