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| Anti-Mufti forces are ganging up | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Mar 23: The PDP decision to form coalition government with BJP in J&K has irked many in Kashmir and outside. They have condemned the alliance as unnatural and against Kashmir and Kashmiri Muslims. They have launched campaign against PDP not only in the Valley but also in Pakistan. They are using Pak daily -- The Dawn -- to provoke PDP leadership to snap ties with BJP and form government with the Kashmir-based and Kashmir-parties like NC and Congress or to make PDP recommend dissolution of the state assembly so that fresh elections are held in the state and a Kashmiri party wins 44+ seats from the Valley.
The critics of the alliance are saying that "the patron of the People's Democratic Party, Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, flouted his election manifesto, the people's mandate and the pledges repeatedly made during the elections as well as later" and that "this is singularly unfortunate for two reasons". "He had performed fairly well as head of a PDP-Congress coalition from 2002 to 2005. Secondly, the people of Indian Kashmir had come to trust him. Hence, his electoral success," they are saying. "The Common Minimum Programme was published only after Mufti Mohammed Sayeed had taken oath of office as chief minister on March 1, as head of a coalition with the BJP. It is committed to rob Kashmir of its autonomy, guaranteed by Article 370 of India's constitution and also to communalize the area by whipping up Hindu sentiment in Jammu. It lost every single seat it had contested in the Muslim-majority Valley. The people voted in huge numbers to defeat its plans. The PDP's manifesto: 'The special status enshrined in Article 370 is required to empower the people of [Indian] J&K and help deal with the issues of identity, borders and governance; use Article 370 itself to restore the original special status' of the area," they are also saying.
Not just this. They have also said: "The PDP-BJP accord treats Article 370 as dirty words not even to be mentioned. It sanctifies those fraudulent 47 orders in these terms. 'While recognizing the different positions and appreciating the perceptions BJP and PDP have on the constitutional status of J&K, considering the political and legislative realities, the present position will be maintained on all the constitutional provisions pertaining to J&K, including the special status in the constitution of India'. Since Article 370 is the only constitutional provision pertaining to the area, 'all' here refers to the 47 orders made under Article 370. They are now approved by the PDP".
"The status quo is no favour to Kashmiris. Restoration alone is; for 47 orders were made by the President of India under Article 370, from 1954 to 1994, so that 94 of the 97 entries in the Union List and 26 of the 47 entries in the Concurrent List were extended to J&K as were 260 of the 395 articles of the Indian constitution. All, with utter unconstitutionality," they are saying to make their point against the decision of the PDP to forge a post-poll alliance with the BJP to form government.
All this only shows that the critics of the alliance want the PDP to come out of it to make common cause with those in Kashmir. This is unreasonable and unacceptable. |
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