Interlocutors seek fresh role under new govt

New Delhi: After an expensive, and largely unproductive stint as New Delhi’s interlocutors for Kashmir, the ‘official negotiators’ drawn from media, academia and bureaucracy are seeking new role in India’s new home ministry, which will be in place on May 26 when Modi and his team will be sworn in. 

The head of the panel of former interlocutors Dilip Padgounkar, who is a renowned journalist, Tuesday said that he along with Radha Kumar, a professor, and M M Ansari, a former bureaucrat, will jointly write a letter to the new Home Minister of India. 

“Once India will have its new Home Minister, all the three interlocutors will sit together and would forward a letter to him with respect to our recommendations that we have made in our report about Jammu and Kashmir,” he said adding that the BJP president Rajnath Singh had once said that the report of interlocutors should have been made public to facilitate a healthy debate on the recommendations made by them. 

“BJP had formed a study group and even that group had gone to Kashmir to assess the situation on ground there. Rajnath Singh knows everything about out recommendations and we hope that he will impress upon the new government of India to have a healthy debate on the report of interlocutors,” Padgounkar said. 

“It is a positive sign that BJP’s top leader agrees with most of our recommendations and we are looking forward to their implementation,” he said.

“Least Home Minister can say ‘no’ to us but something positive may also come out after the meeting,” Radha Kumar said (CNS)

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