Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Governor N N Vohra today asserted that only dialogue and discussion can solve problems faced by Jammu and Kashmir as a confrontational approach will never lead to any resolution.
Vohra, who took office of the Governor in the state 10 years ago, was delivering his I-Day address at the Sher-e-Kashmir cricket stadium here.
“To pull the state out of the prevailing environment of suspicion, fear, distrust and growing cynicism, it is of crucial that all stakeholders; whatever be their political convictions or religious ideologies; close ranks and muster the courage to accept that our problems can be resolved only through dialogue and discussion and by making sustained sincere efforts towards promoting reconciliation and communal harmony,” he said.
Vohra said divisive and confrontational approaches can never lead to the resolution of any of the problems.
“As we have seen for ourselves, such approaches have only generated vested interests which have fractured our society and severely damaged our centuries-old syncretic values and traditions,” he said.
The governor appealed to the leaders of all political parties in the state, and to those at the helm of various social, cultural, religious and other influential organisations, to ponder seriously over what had been gained from the endless turmoil, the continuing human and economic losses and the sufferings which the people have been undergoing over the past several decades.
