Excelsior Correspondent
MUMBAI, Mar 24: Strongly opposing the Interlocutors report on J&K Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today said that it has been deliberately released 36 hours after the Parliament was adjourned, since die to avoid Parliamentary accountability on the recommendations.
Though it was not on its agenda the report came for discussion in the two -days BJP National Executive meet which started here, this morning soon it was released by Union Home Minister P Chidambaram today. The Party on the instance of Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley drafted a special resolution and adopted the same rejecting the report in totality.
Later the Party national spokesperson, Nirmala Sita Raman and BJP J&K chief Spokesperson and National Executive member Dr Jitendra Singh told reporters that Party has rejected the report in totality.
While reacting to the report on its preliminary examination the BJP expressed its disappointment on the same. Terming the report as a verbose document, the Party said that it is written in denial about certain basic realities.
The party said that some of the facts, which the report has ignored included that Pakistan has not reconciled to Jammu and Kashmir being integral part of India and it is not likely to cooperate in terms of resolution of the political issue. But this basic fact has no mention in the report, it added.
Moreover the interlocutors in their report have failed to offer any solution to the cross border and local terrorism which is engineered either from Pakistan or local separatist groups other than suggesting dilution of anti terrorism steps, it said.
Maintaining that the future of secularism and coexistence in the Kashmir Valley is in jeopardy where Pandits and Sikhs have been tortured, threatened, killed and compelled to leave the Valley, BJP alleged that the report has failed to offer any response to their rehabilitation demand.
Accusing the interlocutors of weakening the Indian position on PoK, which as per the resolution of Indian Parliament of 1994 is an integral part of India, the BJP said the report proceeds on the basis that PoK is and will be Pakistan administered and refers to it as PAJK (Pakistan Administered Jammu & Kashmir) which is strongly objectionable.
The BJP further criticized the report saying it has failed to recognize that Article 370 has been a psychological barrier between the State and the rest of the country, which has prevented investment and total integration of the State with rest of the country. The Party statement said it has also weakened the Constitutional link between the State and the rest of India and instead of recommending the abolition of such a provision of Constitution, the report recommends that it may be made permanent by suggesting the replacement of “word temporary with the word special’’.
Opposing the report BJP said that it has created a hope for the future for recreating the offices of “Wazir-e-Azam’’ and “Sadar-e-Riyasat’’ and recommended that the nomination of Governor to be initiated by the State Assembly. Besides the report recommended the review of all post –1952 laws and their application to the State of J&K which is not acceptable to the people of entire country, it added.
Terming it a disastrous step BJP said since several laws made applicable to the State after the martyrdom of Dr Shyama Prasad Mukharjee in 1953 and the Indira Sheikh accord in 1975 will be reconsidered.
Moreover BJP said there are several areas of reservation that the party has on this report as founder of Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) Dr Mukherjee sacrificed his life to prevent “ two Vidhans, two pradhans and two Nishans’’ in one country and it will never accept any such move which tends to recreate what Party has already rejected. Hence on these grounds the Party rejected all these aspects of the report in their entirety.
Meanwhile, Dr. Jitendra Singh said BJP will hold nation-wide agitation at every fora against the Interlocutors report.
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