The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has suggested setting up a political or a Parliamentary Committee to initiate a dialogue with all sections of society in Jammu and Kashmir.
“Only a political committee can seriously conduct the exercise of initiating a dialogue as past experience of interlocutors has not been so fruitful,” CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat told journalists at the end of the two-day Polit Bureau meeting here on Tuesday.
Terming the Centre's 8-point initiative “a step in the right direction,” he said it was “inadequate” as the plan “does not adequately reflect” the change in the security scenario in Jammu and Kashmir.
Noting that instances of armed insurgency had been “tapering off, and the levels of violence had reduced drastically, he said it was “necessary to change the overall security strategy and the manner in which civil protests are being tackled.”
The Polit Bureau discussed the situation in the Valley in the context of the visit of the all-party delegation to the State and the announcement by the Centre of its eight point programme.
Mr. Karat said it was necessary to change the overall security strategy and the manner in which civil protests were being tackled.
“The State should expedite the release of all arrested persons during the four-month agitation. Further, compensation should be paid not only to the families of those killed in police firing, but also to the large number who have been injured,” Mr. Karat said.
The Polit Bureau also sought implementation of the rehabilitation package for the Kashmiri Pandits who have been displaced.
“Implement proposals”
Welcoming the Centre's eight-point programme, the CPI has asked the government to take urgent steps for implementation of these proposals. The national executive of the CPI that met here on Monday also took up the report of Gurudas Dasgupta who visited the State as part of the all-party delegation last month. “The CPI welcomes the proposals, but wants the government to take necessary and meaningful steps for the time-bound implementation of these proposals. There are serious charges levelled by many people in Kashmir that the proposals and packages for Jammu and Kashmir announced in the past were not at all implemented. There was no sincerity on the part of the Union government,” a party statement said.
