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| 2019 general elections expose NC, PDP | | Kashmir turns Waterloo | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 7: The fifth and final phase of Lok Sabha elections in J&K got completed on Monday with Ladakhi people going out to vote to elect their representative to the Lok Sabha and the people of Pulwama and Shopian in the Anantnag Lok Sabha constituency boycotted the poll for all practical purposes.
The 2019 elections cleared many cobwebs of confusion. These proved that the National Conference (NC), Kashmir's oldest political party (1932), and the People's Democratic Party (PDP), which was established in Kashmir in 1999 to provide an alternative to the NC, have no presence in Jammu and Ladakh provinces. Jammu and Ladakh provinces constitute over 84 per cent of the state's land area. Neither the NC of Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah nor the PDP of Mehbooba Mufti fielded a single candidate from any of the three Lok Sabha constituencies in Jammu and Ladakh. These elections vindicated the age-old stand of the people of Jammu and Ladakh that they disliked the kind of politics the Abdullahs and the Muftis played and that they didn't represent the general will of the people of the state.
These elections further established that the Abdullahs and Mehbooba Mufti - apart from the Congress, the CPI-M and the People's Conference - have all become irrelevant even in Kashmir with whose help the NC ruled the state for several decades and the PDP ruled the state between 2002 and 2005 and March 2015 and June 19, 2018).
That the Abdullahs and Mehbooba Mufti have lost their sheen and appeal even in Kashmir could be seen from the dismal voter turnout. The Srinagar constituency from which Farooq Abdullah sought mandate saw only a voter turn out of 14.8 per cent. As many as 12 candidates contested from this constituency. Of course, the Congress didn't. It had left this seat for Farooq Abdullah. The story of Anantnag Lok Sabha Constituency was no different. Only 8.76 per cent voters voted. Mehbooba Mufti sought mandate from this constituency. !8 candidates were in the fray.
Baramulla was only Lok Sabha constituency which witnessed somewhat respectable voter turn out. 39.9 per cent of the voters exercised their franchise. Baramulla constituency is by and large non-ethnic Kashmiri people. It is mostly inhabited by Pathowari-speaking people - language spoken in PoJK and Jammu's Poonch and Rajouri districts.
Contrast the voter turnout in Kashmir with the voter turnout in Jammu and Ladakh and one will note the difference. Jammu's Jammu-Poonch Lok Sabha constituency witnessed highest voter turnout, 72.16 per cent. Jammu's Kathua-Udhampur-Doda Lok Sabha constituency witnessed 70.2 per cent voter turnout. As for Ladakh, it witnessed 71.1 per cent voter turnout.
All this clinches the whole issue and suggests that the 2019 Lok Sabha polls have hurt the NC, the PDP and the Congress in the Valley to the maximum extent and lowered their position in the eyes of New Delhi, opinion leaders and media, including international media. |
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