Though politicians of all hues and even top cabinet colleagues of Prime Minister Narendra Modi talk about the relevance and implementation of Vajpayee’s reconciliatory initiatives but the helmsmen in Delhi are undoing what Vajpayee did for silencing borders dividing two parts of Jammu & Kashmir. As the spirit of Vajpayee doctrine is embedded in the 2003 ceasefire agreement which brought silence on borders for about a decade, the incumbent central government claiming to be the follower of the Vajpayee’s Kashmir doctrine has to end hostility with Pakistan both militarily and diplomatically to prove its words by the deeds on ground. Unfortunately top ministers of the Modi government while claiming to be the follower of Vajpayee’s Kashmir doctrine are issuing provocative statements against Pakistan only to show its unwillingness on the resumption of bilateral talks which could clear the ground for the implementation of the 2003 ceasefire agreement on the borders dividing two parts of Jammu & Kashmir. Even the key ministers of the Vajpayee government can’t deny the fact that it was Vajpayee who despite the experiences of a limited war in Kargil choose to walk on the path of reconciliation and created a conducive atmosphere for a summit level meeting with the then Pakistan President General (Retd.) Parvez Musharaff at Agra. To show its sincerity in working on the Vajpayee doctrine for durable peace and stability in Jammu & Kashmir the Modi Government have to work for reconciliation with Pakistan for implementing the 2003 ceasefire agreement which had brought respite to the border populations on both sides of the divide in Jammu & Kashmir.
Provocative utterances of both the central ministers and peace negotiators in Kashmir by all standards of understandabilities are going against the spirit of Vajpayee’s doctrine on Kashmir and Pakistan and this is what likes of Rajnath Singh have to understand.
Not once but dozens of times Home Minister Rajnath Singh during last more four years of BJP led NDA rule would have threatened Pakistan with the remark that if Pakistan does not change its behaviour it will split into ten parts. The remarks of the likes of Rajnath Singh by all standards of understandabilities are going against the spirit of Vajpayee policy on Pakistan and Jammu & Kashmir. To show respect to Vajpayee’s doctrine on Kashmir and Pakistan the ministers of Modi government have to shun the politics of provocations. Provocative utterances of both the central ministers and peace negotiators in Kashmir by all standards of understandabilities are going against the spirit of Vajpayee’s doctrine on Kashmir and Pakistan and this is what likes of Rajnath Singh have to understand.
