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| Kashmir Politics-story of dynastic, tragic successions | | | Bashir Assad
Srinagar, June20: One may differ with politics and political ideology of Sajad Gani Lone, chairman People's Conference but as for his intellectual acumen is concerned, perhaps he is having greater degree of understanding of Kashmir politics.
Very recently while announcing the formation of students wing of People's Conference, Lone offered a very wonderful explanation to the political spectrum in Kashmir. Though Early Times has, more than once, articulated that politics in Kashmir is circumstantial besides being dynastical and the politicians across the divide were products of circumstances, Sajad who himself is a circumstantial politician, told reporters that Kashmiri politics has been a story of either dynastic or tragic successions. Dynastic succession in the change of the traditional political families
and tragic succession brought about by tragic assassinations in the case of the survivors of assassinated leaders in Kashmir.
This statement from Sajad was really extraordinary and unusual for varying reasons. When a comparison is drawn between contemporary politics in Kashmir and the political history, one could hardly find any substantial difference between the two. The only difference is that pre-1931 politics in Kashmir was mostly influenced by noblemen of Kashmiri Pandits particularly Dhars, in fact the Dhar dynasty continues to impact the Kashmiri politics till recent past when they were replaced by dynastic politics soon after Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah made Dr. Farooq Abdullah his political heir.
After the inception of armed militancy in Kashmir in 1989, a new brand of political leaders emerged on the political horizon of Kashmir which entirely comprises on tragic successions.
Lone spoke his heart when he said that politics in Kashmir lacks evolution. "Leadership needs to be a function of evolution and not dynastic succession," said Lone. "It is time the Kashmiri nation embarks on a journey towards evolution, choosing to shun dynastic politics and tyrannical nepotism to bring about this paradigm shift in the way we identify and develop our future leaders," added Lone.
Lone stressed the people to take responsibility to clean the mess that they find themselves in and asked them stop feeling that someone else should and will clear up the mess. "No body, no individual, force or group will come from outside to effect change in Kashmir. We have created this social mess and we alone can steer our nation away from distress towards hope and development," Lone, added.
However, Lone's statement could not drew the attention of writers and thinkers and as such could not generate debate, perhaps for the reason that Lone is the political heir of renowned assassinated politician Abdul Gani Lone like the whole spectrum of politicians impacting the Kashmir politics. This kind of statement should have come from a person alien to dynastic or tragic successions. Perceptional change, somehow, is inevitable and the change in perception alone leads to transformation. |
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