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| Opposing PDP, BJP coalition to create hatred between Jammu, Valley | | Front of instability | | Rustam
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 28: There are certain objective forces which have appreciated, may be grudgingly, the nature of the 2014 mandate in Jammu & Kashmir and recommended formation of the PDP-BJP coalition government in the state. Their argument is that the PDP, which won 25 seats from Kashmir Valley, and the BJP, which won an equal number of seats from Jammu, alone have the moral, political and constitutional right to form the next government and that they alone can provide a strong and stable government.
They have also argued that any move on the part of the Kashmir-centric parties to exclude the BJP from the government formation would not only further embitter the already rather bitter relations between Jammu province and Kashmir Valley, but would also lead to the disintegration of the state. They do make a valid point. The exclusion of Jammu from the government formation would surely create a volcanic situation in this part of the state, which could culminate in the state's three-way split.
Importantly, the PDP, which also emerged as the single largest party in the 87-member Legislative Assembly by winning 28 seats, is also of the same view. That's the reason the PDP rejected outright the NC's offer of unconditional outside support to it and also didn't endorse the Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad's highly dangerous and communal grand alliance suggestion. Azad had urged the PDP leadership not to join hands with the "communal" BJP and instead, asked it to join hands with the NC and the Congress and form three-party coalition government so that the grand alliance could respect the so-called Kashmiri sentiment. It is not necessary to explain what Azad meant by Kashmiri sentiment.
As against those who consider the PDP-BJP coalition as the only viable combination in the wake of the fractured mandate, there are - apart from the NC and the Congress - other Kashmir-centric, essentially sectarian and anti-Jammu forces which are airing views which have the potential of creating the 2008-like situation in Jammu province. For example, the so-called three-MLA third front comprising CPI-M state secretary M Y Tarigami, separatist-turned-politician Hakeem Muhammad Yaseen and MLA Langate and rabble-rouser Er Rashid, like the NC and the Congress, has also been expressing itself against the suggestion that the PDP and the BJP should form coalition government in the state. "The PDP-BJP alliance will be unholy, unprincipled and uncalled for," said Tarigami on January 25, and added that "their honeymoon will be short-lived and I believe the new dispensation which is in the offing would crumble as both the parties are opportunistic".
As far as Er Sheikh Abdul Rashid is concerned, he said: "He is in a state of shock after the assertions made by PDP patron on the formation of government. I feel heart-broken. I have come to the conclusion that people of Kashmir must be taken to task". The views expressed by Yaseen were also almost identical. He said: "In 1975, National Conference patriarch, Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah told people that he didn't get the chair for power but to fulfill a mission. What was that mission, we still don't know. Similarly, if we keenly scrutinize the speech of PDP patron on the alliance, it seems that he too is playing Sheikh. Mufti has stated that he won't compromise on the sentiments and the mandate, but by joining hands with BJP, what is he trying to prove?"
What does this third front want? It wants a dispensation that is patently Valley-centric and rabidly anti-Jammu. In effect, they want the PDP, the NC and the Congress to join hands to negate the 2014 historic verdict that established that Jammu and Ladakh are two of three equally important political factors in the state. But what they ate doing is not surprising. After all, they belong to that school of thought that consider Jammu and Ladakh as Kashmir's two colonies whose only role is contribute revenue to the state exchequer and get crumbs in return. But the times have changed and psyche of Jammu and Ladakh has asserted and asserted to the extent that it rejected the Kashmiri politics once and for all. |
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