Congress leader and former Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Wednesday said that to find a solution to the Kashmir crises, India should assure the people of Kashmir that the grand bargain promised during the time of Kashmir's accession would be honoured. Mr. Chidambaram said: “We look at Kashmir as an issue of land, but it's a problem of people instead. Now, both the governments in New Delhi and Srinagar mishandled the situation very badly.”Mr. Chidambaram said that Kashmir needs a unique political solution but the ruling PDP-BJP alliance is itself a grave provocation for the valley. Accepting that the situation in Kashmir has been mishandled by successive governments including the UPA, Mr. Chidambaram said: “We did mishandle, but we corrected ourselves in 2010, since then governments didn't follow-up. We have ignored the grand bargain under which Kashmir acceded to India.

Source: The Hindu July 21, 2016 08:15 UTC