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| Is Hurriyat politics finally over in Kashmir ? | | Less than a month after PM’s APM, Mirwaiz extends olive branch | | Early Times Report
Jammu, July 9: A major tectonic shift in Kashmir’s separatist politics is being witnessed with those who were at some point of time the Pak proxies now subtly giving enough hints that they have accepted the August 5, 2019 decision.
This is for the first time that a major policy statement has been issued by the Hurriyat Conference led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq after the removal of Article 370, hinting that the conglomerate is not opposing what the government is doing in the erstwhile state. It further makes no mention of delimitation commission and its working at present. All it stated was that it wants the dialogue to progress for peace and prosperity of Jammu and Kashmir. It is even less than a month when Prime Minister Modi held All Party meeting with the political leaders of erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir including Ladakh. The statement by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq is a direct indication that the separatists too want to become the part of this process.
This softening of the stand by the separatist groups has led many political pundits to believe that a major change in Kashmir’s political scenario is in the offing and that those who used to remain the critical opponents are toeing the line.
On June 28, last year, the die- hard Pro Pakistani supporter who spearheaded several anti- India demonstrations in Kashmir shook everyone with his audio message in which he declared his quitting from Hurriyat Conference which he himself founded and has headed for about two decades. The reasons Geelani gave for leaving the amalgam was the lack of discipline within its ranks and silence maintained post abrogation of Article 370.
As for the first time, accession day on October 26 was celebrated with a gazetted holiday in Kashmir, there was interestingly no strike call issued by the separatists on October 27- something that used to be a regular practise of these groups. Not even a single statement was issued by any of the separatist leaders about October 27 or asking people to observe a strike on this day. This is the reason that people fearlessly travelled on roads and vehicles were plying in a normal manner.
In 2019 even ahead of the 370 abrogation, when home minister Amit Shah visited Valley, the separatists including Geelani for the first time since the eruption of militancy in 1990, issued no strike call on the Home Minister’s visit. Post Abrogation of 370, separatists issued no strike or chalo calls. |
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