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PDP's responsibility increases manifold Countering the defeated NC 5/17/2014 11:29:18 PM Rustam JAMMU, May 17 : The People's Democratic Party (PDP) has done it. It trounced the NC by inflicting a comprehensive and humiliating defeat on its all the three candidates, including the party president and outgoing Union Minister Farooq Abdullah, re-seeking election to the 16th Lok Sabha. The PDP will have to behave in a responsible manner and play a constructive role, instead of indulging in soft secessionism. With its remarkable victory, the PDP's responsibility has increased manifold in the sense that the defeated, desperate and frustrated NC leadership will turn more radical in the coming days to restore the political space it lost to the PDP, which also got less number of votes this time. The vote share of the PDP declined from 22.36 per cent in 2009 to 20.5 per cent in 2014. As for the NC, its vote share reduced from 19.11 per cent in 2009 to just 11 per cent in 2014. A peep into the history of the NC shows that its leaders turn more radical when they find themselves in trouble. It happened in 1952-53, 1980, 1984, 1986, 1990, 2002, 2008, 2010 and 2013. There are potent reasons to believe that things would worsen in the Valley as the assembly elections in the state are just five months away. There would be a cut-throat competition between the NC and the PDP and in the process, the PDP, which, like the NC, contested the Lok Sabha election on the Kashmir issue and self-rule (read semi-independence, India-Pakistan joint control over Jammu & Kashmir and demilitarisation) might take recourse to the politics of competitive secessionism. And if all this happens, the results would be disastrous. That's the reason that it should not walk into the NC's dangerous trap. One can only hope that good sense would prevail and the PDP would focus only on the public-related issues. This hope stems from the positive statements in favour of the BJP and its Prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi which were made umpteen times during the election campaign in Kashmir by PDP patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and his daughter, party president and Lok Sabha member from Anantnag constituency Mehbooba Mufti - a stance that was exploited by the NC leadership to the hilt to lower the image of the Muftis in the eyes of the Kashmiri people. The Abdullahs repeatedly accused the Muftis of hobnobbing with Mr Modi and other senior BJP leaders to "abrogate Article 370 and harm the Kashmir cause". They described the PDP as the "B-team of the BJP".   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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