‘Omar Abdullah woke up Narendra Modi’
Modi’s efforts ‘too little too late’: Mani Shankar Aiyar
5 Dariya News
New Delhi 23-Aug-2016
Describing the latest remarks of Prime Minister Narendra Modi over Kashmir as ‘too little too late’ former Congress Member Parliament Mani Shankar Aiyar Tuesday it was Omar Abdullah who woke up New Delhi otherwise Modi and his team was in slumber and disinterested towards Kashmir imbroglio.Mehbooba Mufti is helpless while Omar Abdullah succeeded in explaining the implications of current unrest. It was Omar who woke up New Delhi which seems to be ready now to talk to the people of Kashmir,” Aiyar told Kashmir based news agency CNS. He claimed that the present dispensation in New Delhi has neither empathy nor sympathy with the people of Kashmir.My latest visit to Kashmir made me realize that people of Kashmir abhor India and I must admit that people just want freedom from Modi’s India. The protests in Kashmir are not against Mehbooba Mufti led government but against the government of India.
Chief Minister Mehbooba is generally being dismissed as irrelevant; the focus of anger is on the BJP government at the centre. Not that the Congress or the National Conference are not excoriated. They are, and held responsible for much of what has gone wrong these last seven decades. But the current BJP dispensation is regarded as the last straw, with no residual trust or hope vested in it,” Aiyar said.Castigating Arun Jaitley for flying to Jammu from New Delhi to hoodwink people there, Aiyar said that the way he criticized people of Kashmir and the stone-pelters clearly indicated that Government of India is not only least bothered about people of Kashmir but it also lacks insight towards Kashmir scenario.
Now Modi has started talking about Kashmir, though it is too little too late still it is a good sign. But again look at the audacity of Arun Jaitley how he played politics in Jammu and criticized people of Kashmir. Jaitley doesn’t understand the sentiments of people of Kashmir,” he said.
“During my recent visit to Kashmir, people whom I met told me thatthey felt deeply let down, slighted at the Modi’s callous indifference to their condition. What, they demanded to know, has Balochistan to do with their fate in Kashmir? Why this diversion of attention to Pakistan when the core of the problem lay in Kashmir and not outside? Why was there no reference at all in his long address to the suffering of Kashmir and the Kashmiris? Why could he not have spared a word of sympathy for the children lying blinded and amputated in the hospitals?,” he said and added that situation has really gone out of control in Kashmir. Aiyar said that the people of Kashmir firmly believe India was out to keep their land and not conciliate their people. “People think there is no sincerity, they think, in the pretense of a search for a political situation; indeed, New Delhi does not even consider the problem to be political, they view it as a matter of law and order to be ruthlessly crushed by brutal police action and, where that failed, by the armed forces enjoying the impunity of AFSPA.” Aiyar said that it is high time for Government of India to take stake holders in confidence and find a permanent solution to the Kashmir problem. (CNS)