I must make a personal explanation because a reference was made to what I said before the infiltrators came in August 1965. I think it was on the 1st or 2nd.
... I had said, it does not mean there is no danger of infiltrators. Some body cannot just try to take a sentence out of context and throw it at my face just SOW. But the fact remains.
Sadiq’s one contribution we must accept. When there was such a very serious threat Kashmir in 1965, when such a large number of infiltrators come in, during that time he maintained law and order position in Kashmir in such a way that it is something very creditable. We must give him whatever is due to him.
...One good thing about Sadiq is that he is hundred percent secular (Interruption). I know there are feelings of grievances of pandits. I never say no to it. The question of pandits need to be handled more carefully, more sympathetically. There is that feeling. I understand that that feeling is there. I do not want to say that Sadiq has this feeling and therefore the pandits have got this grievance.
Shri Bal Raj Madhok : The grievance is not against Sadiq as such, it is against Sadiq Government
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Shri Y. B. Chavan : Ultimately the attitude of the leader of the Government is reflected in the Government also.
Shri Kanzvar Lal Gupta : What about Pakistani slogans raised in Jammu and Kashmir ?
Shri Y. B. Chavan : As I said, I do not say there are no people, who would not welcome Ayub’s regime in Kashmir. I have not said that. That would be closing eyes to realities in Kashmir. There are some people.
... The existence of few such people need not excite us to feel that everybody thinks the same way. There are some people. I do not take the position that there is nobody in Kashmir who does not want Pakistani infiltration in Jammu and Kashmir. There are some such people. But we must know them, we must shake them, we must persuade them, we must try to convert them, not in the other sense, but converting their point of view. We should know who they are and carefully watch them. That also we are doing. And I would like to tell you that; not that we are unaware of it.
... The only point that I would like to stress is this, that it would be wrong to say that the pro-Pakistani slogans have started only now, because then it becomes party politics. There is something like Kashmir politics. There is something like Indian politics which is involved in Kashmir, and party politics is something different. Therefore, if you want to criticise the Kashmir Government today. I can understand a criticism based on national issues. That certainly one can do. But when there is this partisan attitude, as far as politics is concerned, I would like to say that the criticism was very unfair.
Shri J. B. Kripalani : Will it take into consideration my last suggestion ?
Y. B. Chavan : I am glad, he has reminded me of it. I forgot that point about sending the best administrators to Kashmir. This has been continously done in the last two years. The best officers have been selected by the Sadiq Government. It is not that we send them there but the Sadiq Government themselves have asked for the best officers and they have always welcomed the good officers.
