Muscular' policy will not resolve Kashmir: P Chidambaram
"A muscular policy will not help - tough talk
by ministers, dire warnings by the Army Chief, deploying more troops or
killing protesters," the former Home Minister said on Twitter.
A "muscular" policy will not resolve the Jammu and Kashmir issue,
Congress leader P Chidambaram said while noting that all governments
have responded to this "challenge" by deploying more troops and killing
protesters.
"Every government in J&K and every government at
the Centre has responded to the challenge with more warnings, more
troops and more laws.
"A muscular policy will not help - tough
talk by ministers, dire warnings by the Army Chief, deploying more
troops or killing protesters," the former Home Minister said on Twitter.
Congress
leader Digvijay Singh said that it is important to win over people of
Kashmir, who were being killed both by the terrorists and the security
forces and things have deteriorated in the recent past.
He claimed
that the situation had normalised during the previous Congress regime,
but deteriorated during the current PDP-BJP dispensation.
"Those
who lost their eyes, those whose entire family were killed, they are
being killed from both sides, from one side, terrorism kills them, on
the other side, our forces kill them. The situation had normalised.
"From
2005-2013-14, just one year 2010-11 there was some disturbance, normal
elections had started, peace had prevailed. But PDP-BJP government came
and there was a sense of distrust. If you have to keep Kashmir with you,
will you not keep its people with you? Will you not create trust in
them or not?" Singh said.
These remarks come in the wake of continued unrest in the Kashmir valley.
Such
conditions have also resulted in a poor voter turnout and violence
during the recent Srinagar Lok Sabha by- elections during which at least
eight people lost their lives.
The Kashmir valley has been on the boil ever since the killing of terrorist leader Burhan Wani by security forces last year.
There
has been a spate of incidents involving skirmishes between locals and
security forces including stone pelting incidents followed by a controversial "human shield" video that was circulated on the social
media.
A video had surfaced in which a youth was allegedly tied to an army jeep as a human shield against stone pelters.
In
view of the current situation in the valley, Army Chief General Bipin
Rawat today apprised National Security Advisor Ajit Doval of the
security situation in Kashmir, amid growing outrage in the Valley over
the "human shield" video.
Rawat's meeting with Doval comes a day
after he had separate deliberations with Jammu and Kashmir Chief
Minister Mehbooba Mufti and Governor N N Vohra over the law and order
situation during his visit to the state.
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