Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 24: There has been mixed response to appointment of Centre’s interlocutor for holding dialogue with the stakeholders in J&K.
Prof.Bhim Singh, Chief Patron of National Panthers Party and Sr. Executive Member of the Supreme Court Bar Association has welcomed Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India that problem of the people of Jammu and Kashmir can neither be solved by bullets nor by ballets.
He described the appointment of Dineshwar Sharma, a retired IB Director, as an attempt to insert another doors of anaesthesia on the patient, people of J&K today.
He asked President of India Ramnath Kovind, to declare proviso in Article 370 (3) as dead because there is no Constituent Assembly in J&K today. The President of India today enjoys absolute power vested in him by the command in Article 370 to make any changes or even wipe out the existence of Article 370. In the meantime, NPP Supremo suggested that President should declare Article 35(A) as withdrawn because this Article was vested by the President in 1954 without due process of law or in violation of the procedure established by law.
The KP Sabha Jammu fully supported the decision of the GoI to engage with all stakeholders in the State. The Sabha in a statement today said that In its memorandum submitted to the Home Minister upon his recent visit to Jammu in September this year , the Sabha while appreciating the strong steps taken by the GoI in crushing terrorists and initiating NIA probes into the source of funds of the separatists had impressed upon him to engage with all stakeholders who wished to talk within the ambit of the Constitution of India in order to establish lasting peace in Kashmir.
The Sabha believed that unless the Nationalistic elements in the Valley are patronised and supported to the hilt it is difficult to establish lasting peace and bring misled and misguided elements back into the mainstream of nation building. Restoration of peace will also go a long way in restoration of composite culture in the Valley with the return and rehabilitation of Kashmiri Pandits with full sense of security, honour and dignity, a Sabha handout issued here today added.
J&K Pensioners and Senior Citizens Forum while welcoming the decision of the GoI expressed the hope that the present Union Government will take the dialogue process to logical conclusion so that the people of the Valley as well as State will lead a peaceful and dignified life in future.
The Forum patron and a well known trade Unionist Mir Ghulam Rasool said this is high time to hold a purposeful dialogue with all the stakeholders to rid the State from present turmoil and for restoration of everlasting peace as the people have suffered a lot of devastation and destruction during last three decades. He said in a democracy negotiations on table is the only solution to every problem.
Jammu and Kashmir Political Migrants Front has also welcome d the decision of GoI in appointing the interlocutor on Kashmir to hold dialogue for restoration of peace. The Front which held a meeting in Srinagar today under the leadership of its chairman Sheikh Ghulam Mohi-ud-Din Shabnam said this is a step in right direction and shows that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s commitment to restore peace in trouble-torn State. Front while extending full cooperation demanded that political migrants be also made a party to the dialogue.
Gujjar leader and intellectual Shamsher Hakla Poonchi welcomed the proposed dialogue to solve the Kashmir issue by the Government of India. He felt it an important step and need of the hour. He said that protests and restlessness in Kashmir has been continuing since long and opening of dialogue towards the solution of Kashmir problem is a welcome step initiated by the Government of India.
This step could bring a ray of light in Jammu and Kashmir, Hakla said but he felt sorry over the appointment of an ex. IB Chief Dineshwar Sharma as a special representative for starting dialogue and suggested that this task should have been assigned to a politician of repute as J&K is a political problem.
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