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Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 31: After failing miserably to galvanise any support on ground from PAGD, PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti is now in open making strenuous efforts to resurrect Hurriyat in Kashmir. Her latest statement in this regard is an eye opener for the political pundits across the country.
“The resolution of this issue has to go through the roadmap proposed and implemented by Peoples Democratic Party during its short stints in power. There is no alternate to the Mufti Muhammad Sayeed’s vision of peace with dignity and the agenda of PDP is more relevant today than ever”, Mehbooba said, while advocating for the dialogue with neighbouring country and internal stakeholders especially youth. The PDP president is on 3day visit to border districts of Rajouri and Poonch.
Her statement in which she has invoked Pakistan and has indirectly named Hurriyat in Kashmir politics is hinting at the PDP president’s hectic efforts in making the otherwise irrelevant separatism once again relevant in Kashmir.
Last year, Mehbooba was released from detention after 14 months and soon after the PAGD fielded its joint candidates for the DDDC polls. However, infighting within the amalgam comprising of various Kashmir centric parties, has left the conglomerate at crossroads.
Now, when the PDP president has sensed that her efforts to hog headlines through PAGD have failed, she is out to drag separatists and Pakistan in the picture even when separatists are out of the scene in entirety. Hartal politics on Republic Day and August 15 have ended and so is the pro-Pakistan rhetoric.
For the first time, on October 27, last year, no hartal call was given by any of the separatist factions in the Valley. The separatists with the help of militant groups till last year since the onset of militancy were issuing strike calls on October 27. October 27 marks the day when in 1947 Indian Army marched into Kashmir to thwart the entry of Pakistani tribesmen into Kashmir.
Also, ever since the polls were held after the assembly elections of 1987, the separatists and pro-Pakistan elements in Kashmir used to issue a stringent boycott call, warning people not to vote. Since then till last year, the boycott call for each and every election in Kashmir used to remain as a hallmark of separatist groups in toto. However, for the first time when DDC polls were held, no boycott call was issued by the separatist groups.
Now, when Mehbooba is out to make separatism and Pakistan relevant again, the question is whether her efforts would fructify or that she will have to eat a humble pie just like she had to in case of the PAGD? |
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