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| Former Government Secretary Advocates PDP-BJP alliance | | `Mufti as Maestro to Handle BJP' | | Javaid Naikoo
Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 5: Former noted secretary of the Government of India while terming PDP Patron as Maestro to handle BJP said that the PDP-BJP alliance was a viable option.
Amitabha Pande, who is also a noted writer today said that there is much agonizing about the fractured verdict in Jammu and Kashmir which emerged after Modi magic did not really work for BJP to the extent it was expected, however increased the party's vote share in Jammu and Kashmir and PDP which is in a catch-22 situation is worried that if it aligns with the BJP and later alliance did not worked for them, followed by National Conference which is a silent spectator and the Congress according to him is neither in the state and nor in the central government.
He said that forging alliance with BJP for PDP is a political risk that a political maestro like Mufti Mohammad Syed can easily handle, as for BJP, the removal of Article 370 or resisting the removal of the Armed Forces Special Protection Act (AFSPA) is just political claptrap, not an article of faith and added that political parties in India are not ideology-driven and core agenda for everyone is simply to get into government.
"Making heavy weather of the BJP and the PDP coming together is naïve, there are some remarkable features of this verdict that make a possible coming together of the PDP and the BJP a very healthy proposition." Said Amitabha Pande He said that first of all the verdict has come out of possibly the freest and fairest elections in J&K's history, Second, the voters have turned out in unprecedented numbers, Third, it is a vote for all parties to respect the diversity of J&K. He also said that tie up of PDP and BJP paves way for an opportunity that has a revolutionary potential not just for Jammu & Kashmir but for the country as a whole and according to him it also provides an opportunity to channel the 'azadi' discourse into the larger federalism debate across the country particularly in the northeast - and accommodating a diversity of forms of sub-national governance and by doing so it not only will accommodate the yearning for separate regional identities within this larger discourse, taking away the stigma of separatism and relating the 'Kashmir issue' to similar aspirations for devolution elsewhere but also it provides the means by which the vexed issue of Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir can also be brought within the ambit of the federalism, confederalism discourse and this could provide the means for an India-Pakistan rapprochement on the lines envisioned by Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
He said that as Prime Minister, Modi has loudly championed the need for redesigning governance along federal lines, PDP provides him with just that opportunity and Amitabha Pande while advocating PDP to go for an alliance says that 'can we expect him now to seal the pact and have Muzaffar Hussain Beg, the author of the self-rule document, head a Federalism Commission tasked to redesign a bold, new federal architecture for India in which J&K will have a special place? |
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