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| APHC-M may work for the success of BJP | | 2014 Election | | Neha
JAMMU, Mar 20: Will the All-Party Hurriyat Conference - Mirwaiz (APHC-M) urge his constituency in Kashmir to work for the success of the BJP candidates seeking election to the Lok sabha? Why is he unhappy with the Congress-led UPA Government? If one goes by the interview that he gave to India Today the other day, then one can say that Mirwaiz has suddenly turned soft towards the BJP-led NDA and he might ask his followers to strengthen the NDA. "The UPA had some opportunities to resolve Kashmir but whatever they did was not enough. The Union Government under the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee took a movement forward on the resolution to the Kashmir problem. If the NDA and the BJP walk on his footsteps, then there is a lot of hope. We saw Vajpayee and then Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf trying to take bold decisions on Kashmir," he said, and added that the NDA did more for Kashmir than Congress-led UPA. It is a significant statement.
His statements clearly suggested two things. It indicated that Mirwaiz has visualized a defeat of the Congress-led UPA and victory of the BJP-led NDA in the upcoming Lok Sabha election. It also indicated his intention to prepare ground work on time so that he could take the plunge in case it is needed. Mirwaiz is known for hobnobbing with the powers-that-be in New Delhi and promoting his individual agenda - something that has been disliked by many Kashmiri separatists. Separatists like Shabbir Ahmad Shah have been accusing Mirwaiz of harming the movement and asserting that they are the real Hurriyat. It needs to be underlined that Mirwaiz has been consistently flirting with Pakistani establishment and certain elements in the Indian establishment and talking of the UN resolutions on Jammu & Kashmir. He is not really clear as to what exactly he wants. Sometimes he talks about independence. Sometimes he talks about the Musharraf's five-point Kashmir formula. Sometimes he talks of trilateral talks between Delhi, Islamabad and Kashmiris. One thing that is clear from his formulations is that he is out-and-out anti-India. Another thing that thing that is also clear from his nasty formulations is that the APHC-M, like other separatist and so-called mainstream organizations like the NC and the CPI-M, has no place in its scheme of things for Jammu province and Ladakh region and internally-displaced Kashmiri Hindus and that all his formulations are communally-motivated, Valley-centric and divisive. His whole approach is sectarian. Indeed, he is a rabble-rouser and utterly undependable.
Now the question to be asked is: Will the NDA endorse his formulations? The answer cannot be in the affirmative. The NDA would never endorse any solution that further widens the already rather wide gulf between Kashmir and the rest of the country. It cannot, unlike the Congress, ignore the vast nationalist constituency in the state comprising people of Jammu province and Ladakh region, besides internally-displaced Kashmiri Hindus and a number of religious and ethnic groups in Kashmir. However, to say so is not to suggest that Mirwaiz should not ask his followers to strengthen the BJP-led NDA. He must because such an approach would help promote mainstream politics in the Valley. The people of Kashmir are fed up with the nature of their leadership; they want a change and only the emergence of mainstream politics can guarantee a positive change. |
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