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| PDP’s political culture was buried at Mufti Sayeed’s demise: Haseeb Drabu | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 27: Former Finance Minister and an ousted PDP leader Haseeb Drabu has indirectly hit out at the PDP, calling it no different to that of the national conference while equating the two with Lux and Liril soaps who according to Drabu are same with different packaging.
Darbu who was ousted from the cabinet as a finance minister when Mehbooba was the Chief Minister in the year 2018 has written an op-ed in a local daily, stating that with PDP founder Mufti Mohd Sayeed, PDP’s core principals too are buried.
“True that Mufti Mohd Sayeed by his personal manner, political mettle, and governance method gave PDP a different political culture but that was buried along with him. Indeed, now NC and PDP are to the political sphere of Kashmir, what Lux and Liril are to the marketing world of soap; only packaging is different,” Drabu said. He added that by Gupkar declaration, both PDP and the National Conference are trying to redeem their lost relevance in Jammu and Kashmir’s political landscape.
“For these parties and in particular their respective leadership, a joint forum is a route to political survival and electoral salvation. While they will ostensibly bury their “deep differences for the cause of Kashmiris”, they will actually be covering up their individual acts of omission and commission.
It is a bargain hard to forgo especially because the coming together queers the pitch for the new challengers, like the Apni Party. If they stand out, they risk being seen as “sell outs”, and if they join, they risk losing relevance in the valley even as they gain greater relevance elsewhere.
Also, in a situation where, politicians had become bigger than parties, this development will be a good reassertion that parties, which are repositories of a political ideology, are more powerful that well connected individuals,” writes Drabu.
“This write-up of Haseeb Drabu has revealed that not only was the PDP annoyed with him but he too was annoyed with the PDP. The way he has stated that PDP’s core principles were buried with its founder Mufti Sayeed, he has been training guns directly at PDP President Mehbooba Mufti. What would be interesting to watch is how the PDP is going to respond to such a serious jibe launched at it by none other than the man who stitched an alliance between the party and the BJP back in 2015 when 2014 polls accorded a fractured mandate in Jammu and Kashmir and formation of government then had become a herculean task,” says a senior party functionary from Kashmir. |
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