Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Oct 21: National Conference today said that Government of India needs to engage people who don’t see a solution within the Constitution of India.
Talking to a delegation from the Canadian High Commission lead by Jess Dutton, Deputy High Commissioner of Canada who is on an official visit to Jammu and Kashmir, Working President and former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today said “ We need to engage people who don’t see a solution within the Constitution of India and find a solution”
Stating that Jammu & Kashmir accession to India is what it is, and will not change, the working president of National Conference said “Jammu and Kashmir accession to India was on the basis of an understanding, while all other States acceded and then merged but Jammu and Kashmir acceded on an instrument of an understanding that was based on defence, foreign affairs, communication and currency and as such everything else would be the domain of the State,” adding “but over the time this has been whittled down”.
Stating that the National Conference road map is the only way forward, Omar said “our road map is clear, that you cant have a one sided agreement, wherein Jammu and Kashmir continues to remain a part of India but the terms on which the accession took place you distort”.
He added, “therefore they need to restore to the fullest extend possible the autonomous position that existed between Jammu and Kashmir and the rest of the country”
On the international front to address this vexed issue, Omar Abdullah told the Canadian delegation that for a solution to take place we will have to ensure that neither side claims victory. “We will have to ensure more freedom of movement & and allow greater movement of goods across the border, to start with”, he added.
Showing concern over the situation across the country the former Chief Minister said that situation across the country is not the best we would want to find ourselves in.
Calling the anger and disappointment over not releasing the the flood package of people ‘genuine and right’, Omar Abdullah said “while in other States they paid Rs 50, 000 for every mule that died, here even entire house holds have not been given that much money”
Lashing out at the BJP-PDP alliance, Omar said “the Prime Minister Narendra Modi while campaigning in the State time and again stated, that he wanted a mandate to remove me and Mufti from the politics of Jammu and Kashmir, and similarly Mufti went all around saying that if you want BJP to be out then you will have to vote me to power”. “This all proved to be a big lie and while they came together on very good promises none of them were fulfilled”, he added
“The security environment has gone from bad to worse, the number of youngsters joining the ranks of militancy is actually alarming” Omar said, adding “these are internally created problem and the Government need to seriously look into it”
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