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| With NC, Congress base confining to some districts, JK needs a unifying force | | | Mustansir
SRINAGAR, Apr 5: As the NC-Congress coalition enters its second term it becomes quite relevant and imperative to evaluate as to how the partnership of the two historical allies is impacting and will impact the socio-political demography of the state. The alliance though historical has not been continuous. It developed in various stages. The first stage of the relation began with the visit of the first PM of India to the Valley, during which the very popular Sheikh Abdullah declared the merger of the Jammu and Kashmir with India.
However, to analyze the overall impact of the alliance, it is important to first appraise as to where the two parties stand. The National Conference used to be the lone political force in the state cutting across all the regional and religious divides. This very factor was also the biggest reason responsible for binding the otherwise very different regions together. However, now in 2014 the NC stands uprooted from the Jammu division and is squeezed to some constituencies in the Northern and Central Kashmir with PDP in firm control of South Kashmir. The Congress on the other hand has its base confined mainly to the Jammu region, with a minimal presence in Kashmir.
Whatever the outcome of the Lok Sabha elections which the Congress-NC is fighting in alliance, NC and Congress, will further confine themselves to parts of Kashmir and Jammu respectively. As such there will be a complete absence of a party which can claim support of people from Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh divisions at the same time. Though opposition PDP -fundamentally having Valley orientation- under the leadership of former Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed is trying to assert in parts of Jammu division, however, for people of Ladakh, the party is still alien. As of now absence of a vibrant political force, which could have its base in all the three regions, would certainly lead to the absence of a binding force between the various divisions of the state. The NC-Congress alliance henceforth will further accentuate the already existing wide gap between the two regions of the state in terms of ethnicity, language, religion and geography.
With Congress giving up the politically fragile Valley, there will be no national party operating in the Valley. The desertion of the only national party of the Valley will further isolate the already isolated Kashmir not only from the Jammu but even from the Delhi.
Under the given scenario, opposition PDP has enormous opportunity to fill the vacuum and if its leadership exhibits statesmanship and ability take the people of all the three regions along. The NC-Congress has further made the task of filling the vacuum for PDP easier, more so, because the people of the state have only alternative available is shape of PDP provided its leadership understands its responsibility of bridging the regional and religious gaps between the people of the regions of the state. |
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