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| Was it time to roar? | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Dec 28: With the recommendations of Working Group on center-state relations giving fair enough chance to Jammu based political and social outfits to gain mileage on regional lines, the after effects of Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party’s (JKNPP) bandh call may prove counter-productive as it could have been gauged from today’s performance.
Though the shutdown call evoked mixed response and had hardly any impact on business community here, the common man particularly small vendors bore the brunt of the bandh call affecting their “day’s budget.”
Political observers believe that the Panthers’ Party bandh call to protest against the Working Group recommendations was aimed at gaining political mileage in the wake of prevailing circumstances. Earlier, it was Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which used to follow such “political gimmicks,” faced the music of public’s “astuteness” in the recent times.
“Since its inception in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, the BJP always had been in the hunt for a space for recognition here, expect the one big chance that came in its way through Amarnath land imbroglio last year, that too vanished into oblivion after giving them 11 MLAs in the state assembly, but with almost no use,” they said.
They pointed out that the Panthers Party’s stature in Jammu and Kashmir never had touched any point of focus in its years’ stretched career here as the leadership owing its allegiance to the party functionaries hold no great value in quality or expertise to match to those of the other parties and hence have been always on the backburner.
“The bandh call was given in the aftermath of the Centre’s proposal of quiet diplomacy to resolve Kashmir problem followed by Working Group recommendations suggesting greater autonomy for Jammu and Kashmir. The Party had tried to get political mileage by raking patriotic and religious sentiments through such political gimmicks which had nothing to do with the common man,” pundits said.
They further said, “No resurrection of the golden hue of the party is apparent for the future also as 3 MLAs though are there in Legislative Assembly to hold the party’s mantle afloat, yet the demeanour of it has lost the basic sheen that may account its goodwill even among the people.”
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