Centre's interlocutors on Jammu and Kashmir have favoured setting up a Constitutional Committee to review all Central Acts and Articles of the Constitution of India to the state extended after 1952.
The report of the interlocutors Dileep Padgaonkar, Radha Kumar and M M Ansari, which was made public today, ruled out a return to the pre-1953 position. The report, proposed a new compact with the people of Jammu and Kashmir, having three components political, economic and social and cultural.The report, which was handed over to Home Minister P. Chidambaram on October 12 last year, also favoured resumption of the dialogue process between the Centre and Hurriyat Conference at the earliest.
On Centre-state relation, the report calls for review of all Central Acts and Articles of the Constitution of India extended to the state after 1952 Delhi agreement.
The report also says that no more central laws and Articles of the Constitution should be extended to the state by Presidential order.It also suggested that Parliament will make no laws applicable to the state unless it relates country's internal and external security and its vital economic interests, especially in the areas of energy and access to water
resources.It also said the state assembly will submit three names to the President to the post of Governor who will be appointed by the President.
It also suggested that there should be no change in Article 356 and if the state government is dismissed,
elections should be held within three months.The report recommended that for promotion of the state's economic self-reliance, a fresh financial agreement between the Centre and the state is required.The report also listed several recommendations to
harmonise relations between people on both the sides of Line of Control including a hassle-free movement of people and goods across the LoC and a consultative mechanism where elected representatives from both sides can deliberate on issues of common interests like water, economy, tourism and trade.