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| Have Kashmir centric groups finally fallen in line? | | Parties need to apologize for asking people to boycott ULB, Panchyat polls | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 8: As the People's Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PADG) has announced participation in the District Development Council polls, questions are being raised over the decisions of NC and PDP about boycotting the ULB and Panchayat polls held in 2018.
In a surprising move, merely a week after the government announced the DDC polls in Jammu and Kashmir, the conglomerate of various political groups including NC and PDP decided to jump into the fray. This is interestingly the first ever election after the abrogation of Article 370 on August 5 last year.
The regional parties who have come together under the banner of PAGD to fight for the restoration of JK’s special status have decided to contest the polls unanimously.
What is raising the eyebrows is that in the year 2018 when the Article 370 was very much intact and alive, these same parties asked people to stay away from the polls and even boycotted the elections. It was even at that time that the parties were castigated by their own men for boycotting the polls and taking issues of people for granted.
PDP leader Nizam-ud-din Bhat in October, 2018 had come out with a detailed statement hinting at his differences within the party. He opposed the party's decision to boycott the ULB polls. He had stated that the decision to boycott the ULB polls was a wrong one and needs rectification.
Prior to Bhat’s statement in 2018 another senior PDP leader Muzaffar Hussain Beigh had upped the ante against his party leadership. He had even hinted at joining the Peoples Conference led by Sajad Gani Lone.
Now, when Article 370 is gone and so is statehood, one wonders whether these mainstream political groups have finally fallen in line and understood that there is no point leaving people in doldrums. Will these groups now come out to say sorry to the people of Jammu and Kashmir for asking them to boycott polls in 2018 for no reason at all? |
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