Amit Shah’s Visit Reflects Centre’s Indifference to Solving Kashmir Question – By Mudasir Ahmad
On June 22, days before Union home minister Amit Shah was to visit the state, Jammu and Kashmir governor Satya Pal Malik surprised many with a public statement in which he said that separatists were “ready for talks”.…
But when the home minister finally landed in the Valley on his two-day visit beginning June 26, the issue seemed entirely missing from his itinerary. Shah did not extend any olive branches to separatists, who had, this time, surprisingly not given a shutdown call in response to the high-profile visit.… the home minister followed his own script during his stay in Srinagar. While he chose not to speak to reporters directly, the message he sent was clear – the Centre will continue with its crackdown against militants and separatists.…
Many in Kashmir saw a “clear message” from New Delhi in the manner in which the Union minister neither engaged with mainstream parties nor showed any signs of the Centre warming up to separatists for a dialogue on Kashmir. A senior political analyst said the BJP and Centre have been trying to reconstruct the narrative and lay the foundation for their own brand of politics in Kashmir.…
https://thewire.in/government/amit-shah-kashmir-visit-election
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