Though Home Minister Rajnath Singh landed in Kashmir this week with an offer of dialogue but he left it for the Delhi’s special representative Dineshwar Sharma to formally invite Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) for talks over Kashmir issue. The contention that Home Minister and other top central leaders have went on record to show their willingness to talk to Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) is not sufficient enough to respond to the calls for dialogue as even naives can understand that without the formal letter of invite to Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) with implicit and explicit explanations on references to any proposed dialogue process the response from the Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) can’t be expected overnight. As Hurriyat Conference (M) Chairman Mirwaiz Molvi Umar Farooq and JKLF Chairman Mohammad Yaseen Malik who are part of Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) have denied to respond to the dialogue offer in haste the dialogue offer from New Delhi has to come through a formal letter of invite with explicit and implicit explanations on the references of the dialogue process. The decision of Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) not to respond to Delhi dialogue offer in haste shows the lack of trust and confidence in the words of the incumbent central government. As the Home Minister Rajnath Singh pitching for dialogue with the Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) has failed to keep his word even on the replacement of pellet guns which he promised during his meeting with the mainstream opposition leaders two years back the Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) reserves the right to raise doubts on the dialogue offer of the Home Minister.
Rajnath has mouthed choices words to attract praises from the mainstream political leaders particularly Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti but his actions have created many doubts in the hearts and minds of the people in Kashmir valley.
What made the people in Kashmir to doubt the intents of the Home Minister on dialogue offer to Joint Resistance Leadeship (JRL) was his decision to meet lesser known government sponsored public delegations in Kupwara instead of an attempt to reachout to even civil society members of impartial integrity in Srinagar. The dialogue initiative for resolving a contentious issue can’t be resolved by interactions with local delegations of border areas but by a broad based dialogue process for which the terms of reference have to be explained implicitly and explicitly in the offer of invite. Rajnath has mouthed choices words to attract praises from the mainstream political leaders particularly Chief Minister Mehbooba but his actions have created many doubts in the hearts and minds of the people in Kashmir valley.
