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| PDP tears into NC, but also commits wrong | | Self-rule Vs Autonomy | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 25: PDP general secretary Muham-mad Sartaj Madni is right when charges the NC with behaving differently when in power and when out of power and asserts that the PDP works on the agenda of political resolution whether in or out of powers. The NC leaders talk about autonomy and friendship with Pakistan when they are out of power and advocate "bombing Pakistan" and "getting PaK back" while they happen to be in power, he has said.
"Not to go too far in history -- even between 2009 and 2014 -- when the NC was in power as a constituent of UPA, the party never raised the issue of Autonomy either with the Centre, or in the state Assembly," PDP's General Secretary said, adding that "this deceitful politics by NC leaders has now become outdated and hard to sell before the emancipated people of Jammu and Kashmir".
"Had NC leaders been sincere and honest in their claims regarding autonomy, it would have been restored long time ago. History is witness that instead of working sincerely for restoration of autonomy, NC leaders have time and again traded J&K's political and economic interests for power…Right from Indira-Sheikh accord of 1975 through Rajiv-Farooq and Omar-Rahul pacts, NC has bartered not only the State's political and economic interests, but its natural and water resources as well for power. While NC has used 'Azadi', 'Raishumari', 'Rawalpindi Road' and 'Autonomy' in the past with good political dividends for itself, these slogans have no buyers now in the changed circumstances in J&K…Even in 1996, Dr Farooq Abdullah had got a golden opportunity to bargain for certain political and economic measures for J&K, which unfortunately he wasted," Madni, among other things, said while calling the NC's bluff.
Madni didn't exaggerate things to make his point. He only spoke the truth and what he said could be easily verified. In fact, the NC suffered massive defeats in 2002, 2008 and 2014 only because of its politics of deceit, double-speak and lack of commitment to its ideology.
However, to say all this is not to endorse the view of Madni that all in J&K endorse the PDP's self-rule doctrine. He is only partyly right and partly wrong. He is right when he claims whether in or out of power, the "PDP has been working on its agenda of political resolution" of Kashmir issue, but he is wrong when he seeks to create an impression that the self-rule doctrine of the PDP enjoys universal backing in the state. It is not the case. Had it been the case, the PDP would have won all the 46 seats from Kashmir and not performed so poorly in Jammu and Ladakh. In Jammu, the PDP won only three seats from the Poonch-Rajouri belt and didn't find any candidate in Ladakh region for contesting the last assembly elections.
The fact of the matter is that both the PDP and the NC are Kashmir based parties and both have been trying their best to outwit each other in their own typical style. And as far as Jammu and Ladakh are concerned, the politics in these two regions is totally different from that of Kashmir. To be more exact, there is nothing whatsoever that is common between Kashmir and Jammu and between the latter and Ladakh and that both Jammu and Ladakh vouch for a dispensation that rejects both the autonomy plank of the NC and the self-rule doctrine of the PDP.
Madni would do well to remember what late Mufti Mohammad used to say about Jammu province and Kashmir Valley. He used to say that they were North Pole and South Pole. |
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