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| Mainstream leaders restart political process, will separatists follow suit? | | Post 370 abrogation | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 9: As the mainstream parties one by one are display keenness to restart the political process, preferring not to mourn loss of 370 any longer, there are expectations that the separatists too may prefer to move beyond the mournful state.
Several senior mainstream leaders have this week stated in open that it is high time that one moves beyond the remorseful state and devices new strategies for tomorrow.
The first amongst the enlightened ones was Altaf Bukhari, who made a startling revelation in which he said that the time has come to look beyond Article 370 and explore other achievable options for Jammu and Kashmir. "The pain of loss of Article 370 will never go, but we have to come out of it," he said. "Life goes on; we must try for things that we can get.”
He said the way forward is domicile rights for residents and restoration of the statehood to Jammu and Kashmir. "I will work in good faith and try my best to get those demands fulfilled," he said. "I am confident that these measures will help bring relief to people in Kashmir.”
In a similar manner, another senior mainstream leader and a former minister who played a key role in the formation of the PDP, Ghulam Hassan Mir also toed the same line as that of Bukhari. In his recent interview, Mir has said that he will demand the restoration of statehood but not of special status. “I have never shown people the dreams of azadi or Article 370,” he claimed. “I have always talked of development and people call me Mr Development.”
“Politicians have to meet and chalk out a strategy,” he said. “After August 5, a new political scenario has emerged for the Kashmir Valley. So individually, it’s not possible unless people come out and discuss what the future agenda or political strategy should be.”
Mir was part of the delegation led by Bukhari who met JK’s Lt Governor and raised several key issues pertaining to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir. Other members who were part of the delegation included Dilawar Mir, Zaffar Iqbal Manhas, Javed Hassan Beig, Noor Mohamamd Sheikh, Chowdhary Qamar Hussain and Raja Manzoor.
Now, with mainstream leaders one by one are more than eager to be part of the political process, chances are high that the separatists otherwise known for their notoriety took will follow the suit. “Article 370 was never an agenda for the separatist leaders in Jammu and Kashmir. They never raised any demand for its protection. All they wanted as the guarantees under state subject law. Now when the government is assuring that such guarantees shall be accorded to the people of Jammu and Kashmir, separatists have no reason to instigate the masses and ask them to hit the streets for something they do not believe in,” says a veteran political leader hailing from one of the mainstream parties.
He said that in the coming time, there are chances that the separatists will pass the buck to the mainstream leaders, terming 370 as their pie and that the separatist camp has nothing to do with it.
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