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| Why interlocutors leave Valley cold |
| Why interlocutors leave Valley cold
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| INDIA
, 17-November-2010
3:11:32 AM |
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The team of interlocutors appointed by the Centre for Kashmir has gone back after a second trip to the state, without making much of a breakthrough so far. While Dileep Padgaonkar, Radha Kumar and M M Ansari may be among the most vocal to have taken on the mantle, they are not the first ones to have tried their hands at resolving the Kashmir dispute.
The state has seen a succession of interlocutors over the past two decades, right from the goodwill visit of a Rajiv Gandhi-led all-party delegation in March 1990, when the Valley was swept up in its first popular tumult, to be soon followed by a virulent militancy. But all of them, without exception, have left behind little in terms of a roadmap or progress on a Kashmir solution.
All interlocutors have followed a predictable trajectory before suddenly doing the vanishing act. Their mission usually starts with a hunt to find partners for dialogue — with separatists invariably staying away, feeling they deserve more than dealing with New Delhi’s low-profile emissaries — and ends with events overtaking them and rendering them irrelevant to the evolving situation. In case of those sent in with an informal mandate as well as those coming with a government stamp, the script has hardly differed
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