In the recent protests at least 100 people have been blinded by pellets fired by security forces and many others are injured. Communication between the government and the people has broken down.
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The Centre has already announced a package of Rs 80,000 crore for development work in J&K and home minister Rajnath Singh said the government was expediting the process of releasing the funds to the state government. “The government neither accepted not rejected our demands”, CPI (M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury said. Further tearing into Pakistan, the activists have accused successive governments at Islamabad of escalating oppression in the regions of Balochistan, Gilgit-Baltistan and PoK, and “butchering activists” who are chalenging the might of the Pakistani establishment.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi during an all party meeting on Kashmir situation at Parliament in New Delhi. “This is no time to stand on prestige”. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley also said that a broad consensus had been reached. “All parties are of the same opinion… the approach is broadly consensual”.
The Home Minister said all the participants at the meeting felt that normalcy had to be restored in the valley.
The opposition’s cooperative attitude must have come as a huge relief for Modi who has been at the receiving end from his political rivals over a host of issues including the increasing cases of atrocities against the Dalits.
“Pakistan forgets that it is bombing its own people”.
PRIME Minister Narendra Modi on Friday ruled out any compromise on the unity and integrity of India, saying that the solution to the vexed Kashmir problem would have to be within the Constitution.
“The root cause of unrest in Kashmir is cross-border terrorism which is being encouraged by our neighboring country”, the rightwing Hindu nationalist premier said.
Nobody in the opposition disagreed with Modi. “This is no time for a dialogue with Pakistan… not when it has waged a war of words against India, ” remarked Azad.
But Modi maintained a tough line on Friday, telling party leaders in New Delhi that now was not the time to send negotiators and that there must be no compromise on national security.
“Since PoK, including Gilgit-Baltistan, is part of Jammu and Kashmir, India is well within its right to provide moral, political and financial support to the people there to help them in their just struggle for freedom from Pakistan which has been illegally occupying these areas since 1948”, said Gupta.
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“This court can’t go beyond the territory of the country”. Modi also made doubly sure that a dialogue with Pakistan can not begin in the near future. He said the people living in the so-called PoK were being forced to live in fear and the situation there was no better. Protests have erupted against Indian rule for decades, and analysts said Modi’s government appeared short of ideas on how to pacify the protesters. “I have complete confidence that with the dedication of the state government and with your total co-operation, we will soon restore normal life in Jammu and Kashmir again”.
