Come up with political road map: NC to Centre

Tribune News Service

Jammu, August 14

Highlighting the challenging role of the National Conference (NC) in the prevailing volatile situation in Kashmir, NC provincial president Devender Singh Rana today urged the Centre to immediately come up with a political road map, acceptable to all stakeholders.

“The Centre must appreciate internal and external dimensions of the issues pertaining to Jammu and Kashmir,” Rana said while addressing party workers and leaders at Sher-e-Kashmir Bhavan here.

He said patch-work, jingoism or rhetoric have a potential of further vitiating the atmosphere that can make the region a flashpoint for military conflict and eventual disaster. He said the situation called for sagacious and cautious approach.

“Sooner the wisdom dawns upon the Centre to work out an acceptable political road map better it is for the larger interest of peace, progress and unity of the country as also this sensitive state, which is undergoing history’s most traumatic phase under the anti-people PDP-BJP dispensation,” Rana said.

The NC provincial president decried non-challant attitude of the Centre in ending the crisis, asking whether disturbed Kashmir was politically expedient for the BJP to hide its failures.

“If the situation is allowed to aggravate due to political motivation, the cost could be heavier for national integration,” he said.