The Centre's interlocutors on Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday submitted their sixth report to Home Minister P Chidambaram, specifically outlining the problems being faced by women in the 20 year-long violence in the state.
Reacting strongly to media reports that Valley interlocutors felt that the government should change nomenclatures of heads of the state to Wazir-e-Azam and Sadr-e-Riyasat in their report, Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Prakash Javadekar said, "Even a symbolism of separatism will be met with full force," Javadekar told rediff.com over the phone.
He said that that the party will oppose returning of the state's pre-1953 position. He was opposed to the idea of giving greater autonomy to the state.
The interlocutors -- Dileep Padgaonkar, Radha Kumar and M M Ansari -- will also submit their interim report containing the contours of a political settlement of Kashmir issue to the government within a week.
Padgaonkar said that during their last visit to the state, the team held intensive discussions with women representatives, and had tried to understand their view on the Kashmir issue and how to solve it.
"Women in Kashmir had suffered immensely -- both physically as well as psychologically," he said after the meeting with the home minister.
Padgaonkar added that barring a few, most of the women favoured keeping the state as one unit, but demanded that aspirations of the people of the three regions -- Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh -- should be fulfilled.
He said that Kashmir issue should be discussed more frequently in different fora, including Parliament, to understand the problem and how to find an amicable solution acceptable to all.
Asked about the reluctance of separatists to meet the interlocutors, Padgaonkar said they will meet them whenever there is a need and opportunity.
With inputs from PTI
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