Separatists behind Valley mobs: Jaitley

Stating that the situation in the Kashmir Valley was slowly slipping out of control,the Bharatiya Janata Party BJP said that there appeared...

Stating that the situation in the Kashmir Valley was slowly slipping out of control,the Bharatiya Janata Party BJP on Friday said that there appeared to be a change in strategy by anti-India forces and the separatists operating in the Valley.

Earlier,the strategy used to be to have illegal infiltration into the Valley and other parts of the country to indulge in acts of sabotage,acts of terrorism,blasts,killings,destruction of public property,etc. I think somewhere among the strategic thinkers,amongst those who are the handlers across the border and their friends within,there seems to be a realisation now that the global acceptability for these kind of events does not exist. Even domestic support,when incidents of this kind take place,starts reducing , Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley said in the Upper House.

The changed strategy,therefore,appears to be that instead of these individual acts of terror and violence,instigate people for the purposes of mob violence and this entire strategy of mob violence has taken effect in the Valley since 11th of June, Jaitley said,adding that the situation has been building up for the last two years. From young children to women,youth,elderly people,are all being trained in acts of sabotage by way of stone pelting and mob violence, he added.

When the situation is at such a sensitive point,no kind of political packages envisaged by the Government of India will work because packages of this kind will indicate the weakness of the Indian State, Jaitley said.

Suggestions which are made dilute the border across the PoK,which may become an option of legitimate infiltration; dilute provisions of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act,which will cripple Armed Forces who are trying to save the sovereignty of India. Your former partner,PDP,even goes to the extent of suggesting that allow both currencies of both the States. Then there is President Musharrafs suggestion,which the Government of India has never accepted,irrespective of the party in power,to lose control of an area and go in for some kind of joint administration and control. I hope that there is no such proposal to make any concession of this kind, Jaitley said.