"Repression and denial of rights on the ground cannot go with a resolution effort and be expected to produce any positive results", PDP president Mehbooba Mufti said.
Opposition PDP today told the Centre-appointed team of interlocutors on Jammu and Kashmir that the resolution effort should be invested with more credibility besides taking the separatists on board to arrive at any solution to Kashmir problem.
"Repression and denial of rights on the ground cannot go with a resolution effort and be expected to produce any positive results", PDP president Mehbooba Mufti told the three-member panel during an interaction here today.
The chief interlocutor Dileep Padgaonkar accompanied by Radha Kumar and MM Ansari met the PDP president and had a detailed discussion with her on a variety of subjects concerning the state, a release issued by PDP said.
They discussed the current situation in the state, broad contours of resolution effort and PDP viewpoint of a possible solution that could usher in a new era of peace and development in the state.
The PDP patron and the former chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed also joined the discussion for a while, the release said, adding Mehbooba told the interlocutors that the government "had unleashed full might of the state to impose an artificial normalcy on people denying them every right to a decent life."
Instead of providing relief to people in the wake of the turmoil in the Valley, the NC-led coalition had further strengthened the "repressive" measures through "wanton" arrest of youth including teenagers, the PDP leader alleged.
Many of them had fled homes to evade arrest which could prove the first fatal step to an underground activity, Mehbooba told the interlocutors.
Referring to the continued detention of most of the Hurriyat and other leaders and the continuous denial of Friday prayers at Jamia Masjid in Srinagar, the PDP leader said such a scenario was an antithesis of an atmosphere of dialogue and reconciliation.
Discussing various features of Self-Rule with the interlocutors, Mehbooba informed them that the PDP supported a solution through evolutionary process that satisfied all stake holders and took on board all points of view to make it sustainable.
But any resolution, the PDP president stressed, has to address the sense of siege that "gripped the state in the wake of partition".
"We have to rediscover and revive our cultural and logistical channels of growth that have influenced all the three regions of the state for centuries but had become a victim of the politics of partition" Mehbooba said.
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