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Jammu hopes for fair deal in interlocutors' report
Wednesday October 12, 2011 10:11:41 PM,
IANS
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Jammu: People across
Jammu Wednesday said they hoped for a "fair deal" in the report
submitted by the three interlocutors appointed by the central
government to carry out extensive dialogue in Jammu and Kashmir
and suggest a future course of action.
The interlocutors submitted their report to union Home Minister P.
Chidambaram Wednesday, but there was no official word on its
contents.
Shamsher Singh, the president of the state unit of Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP), said: "We cannot give our reaction until we
know the details of the report. We are left confused because at
times the interlocutors appeared to favour our standpoint and
times they vehemently differed."
He added that the BJP could only hope that Jammu region gets its
fair deal and is delivered out of the "discriminations it has been
suffering for years".
A Jammu and Kashmir National Pathers Party legislator also voiced
similar opinion.
"We can only hope that justice would be done with Jammu region on
political, social, developmental and economic fronts," he said.
However, the opinion on the streets was a bit more grim.
"We do not have any hope from such exercises. It is a foregone
conclusion that all this will lead to further appeasement of
Kashmiris," said Ravinder Sharma, 48, a cloth merchant in
Raghunath Bazaar.
Anjali Gupta, a law student of the Jammu University, said: "We are
a condemned lot and this report will suggest more appeasement for
Kashmiris."
The interlocutors -- journalist Dileep Padgoankar, academic Radha
Kumar and former civil servant M.M. Ansari -- were appointed Oct
13 last year, when the Kashmir situation had turned grim following
street protests which had left more than 100 youths dead.
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