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| Farooq, Mehbooba to pay heavy price | | PM Modi not kneeling | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 2: Kashmir-based leaders, including NC president Farooq Abdullah and PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti, are in a state of shock. They are finding themselves in a tight corner because things in the state are not happening in the manner they should and PM Narendra Modi has been treading a path never treaded by any of his predecessors. PM Modi is not kneeling and he is pursuing the line that is hurting the Kashmir-based parties and causing them immense damage. The point is that both the parties are fighting for their very existence even in Kashmir. Leave aside Jammu, where the NC and the PDP have little support-base, which is confined to a few pockets.
That the position of the NC and the PDP has turned so precarious and weak that nobody in New Delhi or in the corridors of powers in New Delhi listens to them. Farooq Abdullah announced boycott of urban local bodies and panchayat elections hoping that New Delhi would kneel, but it didn't happen. Disturbed, perturbed and rattled as he was, Farooq Abdullah reacted and said that the NC would also boycott the assembly and parliamentary polls if New Delhi failed to reassure him that it would not touch Article 35-A. PM Narendra Modi again refused to accommodate him. Instead, Governor SP Malik showed Farooq Abdullah his place saying that the civic polls and Article 35-A were two different things.
The Kashmiri leaders devised a new strategy to put pressure on New Delhi. And it was Mehbooba Mufti who publicly toed his arch-political rival Farooq Abdullah's line and declared that her party would also boycott the civic polls for the same reason. Again, New Delhi held its ground firmly. Thereafter, even the Congress gave an impression that it would also boycott the election. The JKPCC chief announced that situation in Kashmir was not conducive for holding an electoral exercise, but his threat also failed to click. The CPI-M also announced poll boycott but New Delhi stuck to its stand, thus telling the Kashmiri leaders that the days of politics of blackmail were over and that the ongoing election process will be completed.
What is the result? The decision of poll boycott taken by the NC, the PDP and the CPI-M and the manner in which the Congress is contesting the urban local bodies polls has only helped the BJP capture 100s of wards in the Kashmir Valley, especially in South Kashmir, unopposed, with internally-displaced Kashmiri Hindus all set to control a few municipal committees in the Valley. In fact, the poll boycott decision has helped BJP establish its foothold in the Valley and in a big way.
The complaint of the NC that the BJP is imposing its candidates (migrants) on Kashmir is untenable. It's not the BJP, which is responsible for the mess the PDP, the NC, the Congress and the CPI-M are. The BJP is a political party and it's taking full advantage of the situation the Kashmir-based parties themselves created. The Kashmir-based parties will have to pay a heavy price for the decision that they took as they have to reckon with 100s of BJP councilors in the Valley.
In the meantime, the BJP is celebrating the victory of its candidates in Kashmir and why not? |
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