No preference to separatist elements and equal weight for the public opinion of all the regions of the state, not just the Valley, are at the heart of the rightwing thinking
The RSS had made its wishlist clear for what it expects from newly-appointed Jammu and Kashmir interlocutor Dineshwar Sharma. No preference to separatist elements and equal weight for the public opinion of all the regions of the state, not just the Valley, are at the heart of the rightwing thinking.
Chief RSS affiliate working in Kashmir, Jammu Kashmir Study Circle (JKSC), told DNA that the interlocutor needed to approach the people of the state as a "common man himself" and not be overwhelmed with the separatist narrative that is "current in just five districts of the Valley".
JKSC believes that former spymaster Sharma must not give any preferential treatment to the Hurriyat leaders. "We are not saying that Hurriyat leaders must not be talked with. But, they must not be given any preference over others or they must not be considered as the sole voice of Kashmir. If they wish they can approach the interlocutor and express their views, but Sharma must not invite them especially," said JKSC media director Abha Khanna.
"Hurriyat has lost the trust and support of the people and that needs to be made clear," Khanna said. "Sharma must ask them why their children have not been throwing stones, and are the legatees of state patronage in the form of government jobs and properties across the country."
Khanna also told DNA that there were such nascent yet powerful and numerically dominant sections among the common people of the state who want to come to the mainstream and yet were unable to sound their views due to threat perception from the separatists.
"Anybody who wants to get a real sense of Kashmir, they must go as a non-entity, not as a journalist and not as a bureaucrat or as a politician. One should go like a tourist and go around and about on the day of a bandh call by the separatists. Then you shall see that life goes normally without being effected, only some shop shutters will be seen closed. That is the real Kashmir," Khanna said.
"There is a growing civil society in the state which so far has not been allowed to grow. It is nascent, but numerically powerful and must be taken into consideration by the interlocutor. They have not been able to come in the public realm openly due to the fear psychosis created by the separatists. They must be reached out to because they shall not be able to dare to approach Sharma on their own," the JKSC director said. "Some such groups are women or villagers whose problems are civic and not separatism."
Moreover, the RSS-backed body wants an end to the dehyphenation of the Valley from the other regions of the state such as Kargil and Ladakh. "The state is diverse; the people of Kargil or Doda or Ladakh or Jammu are equal to those in the Valley. Why should their voice not command equal weight," Khanna added.
Meanwhile, Sharma would be back in the Valley on November 26. He would be visiting Mufti's constituency and south Kashmir.
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