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The PDP is striving hard to sell its formula of self-rule in all the
three regions of the state. In this connection it has assigned the job
to its senior leader and former Deputy Chief Minister, Muzaffar
Hussain Baig, who is the author of the formula and who has also been
nominated by the party to head the drafting committee about the
details of the self-rule concept of the party, to sell it in Jammu
region. But the PDP's disadvantage is that there is wide spread and
deep impression among the people of Jammu at large about the party
being Kashmir centric and anti Jammu. This impression about the party
has been formed as a result of anti Jammu and out and out Kashmir
centric role played by the party in the past. At the time of the
formation of coalition government, after 2002 assembly election, the
PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti played Kashmir psyche card and opposed the
Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad to head the coalition government, on
the plea that since he and his party had played the card of having
Chief Minister from the Jammu region for the first time, during the
election campaign and that while Congress had won majority of, viz
fifteen out of its total tally of twenty seats from Jammu, while PDP
had defeated the NC in Kashmir valley, by winning all its sixteen
seats from there and to carry a positive impression among the
Kashmiris, a leader from Kashmir alone should had the State
government. During three years of Mufti heading the State government,
top priority was given to those points of common minimum program of
the coalition government, which concerned the Kashmir valley, while
those points which were concerns for the Jammu people like
implementation of Wazir commission report, fresh delimitation of
assembly constituencies and rehabilitation of border migrants, were
put in the back burner. In fact every action of the PDP led government
and every utterance of the party leaders only took into consideration
the psyche of kashmiris, blatantly ignoring the Jammu psyche. Hence
even a good proposal from the PDP will raise the eyebrows of the
Jammuites and the same will be looked with suspicion here. Thus PDP
shall have first to come clear of impression against it of being anti
Jammu, before any proposal from it can be sold here. Muzaffar Hussain
Baig, who has himself been the victim at the hands of his party
leaders, for taking some decisions as Deputy Chief Minister, which
were favourable to Jammu, may try as much to sell the PDP formula of
self-rule, as sugar quoted pills, the people of Jammu will be
reluctant to taste the same and will least digest it. The self-rule as
spelled by Baig to a group of intelligentia and opinion builders in
Jammu, the other day, according to him takes into account the regional
aspirations of Jammu and Ladakh and envisages in it the dilution of
the political and economic powers to the regional level and further to
the grass route level. This is a welcome realization on the part of
the PDP that the regional aspirations of Jammu can no more be ignored
in formulating any formula for tackling the problem of the state as a
whole. But what Mr. Baig conveyed, is also the thinking of the father
and daughter duo in the party, who alone fire the shorts in the party
at rule the roost. Muzaffar Baig's relevance and position in the party
is only at the pleasure of Mufti Sayeed and Mehbooba Mufti.
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