With central government commanded and controlled by BJP the ally of PDP in Jammu & Kashmir government ruling out the possibility of holding any dialogue wi th the separatist leadership in response to a Supreme Court direction, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti owes an explanation for his recent quitting threat to the central government over dialogue with separatists in Kashmir. As the Chief Minister has went on record to say that she will quit if central government does not initiate a dialogue with the separatists in Kashmir, the central government not verbally but in a written communication has refused to talk to separatists and has henceforth denied walking an extra mile to initiate a dialogue with Kashmiris in Kashmir. By all standards of understandabilities political morality demands that chief minister Mehbooba Mufti comes out with a clarification over her remark on quitting the top job if central government does not initiate a dialogue with Kashmiris in Kashmir. Though people in Kashmir have understood the dirty tricks of mainstream politicians during last twenty years of resistance struggle but the mainstream politician tending to live in a make believe world don’t tend to learn lessons from the lowest ever 7% turn out recorded in recently held by polls in Srinagar parliamentary constituency comprising three districts-Srinagar, Budgam and Ganderbal. The eight civilians were killed on the polling day in several areas of Budgam district in public protests but not in encounters between the government forces and the militants and henceforth the cause of low turnout is the public anger brewing up against the working of the incumbent PDP-BJP coalition government.
The time when both the ally BJP and people in Kashmir has disowned PDP it is for the Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti to take a call on the future course of action to reclaim the political legitimacy her party PDP has lost during last two years of alliance .
Even naives can understand that after the lowest ever 7% turn out in by polls in Srinagar parliamentary constituency, the incumbent Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has lost the moral right to occupy the highest public office she holds now. Already pushed to corner by both the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Rajnath Singh who have given her three months time to restore calm in Kashmir it is apparently clearl that Chief Minister does not possess the clout of both the Prime Minister and the Home Minister which she requires for taking path breaking decisions to reconnect herself with the people not willing to be part of any democratic exercise on ground in Kashmir. In a hostile political atmosphere when the Chief Minister has threatened to quit if the central government does not hold a dialogue with Kashmiris in Kashmir and central government has flatly turn down the demand of the Chief Minister in a written communication to the apex court of the country, the Chief Minister has lost the political legitimacy to govern the state and more so after the complete negation of PDP’s political demands by BJP top brass and 7% lowest ever turn out recorded in recently held by elections in Srinagar parliamentary constituency. The time when both the ally BJP and people in Kashmir has disowned PDP it is for the Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti to take a call on the future course of action to reclaim the political legitimacy her party PDP has lost during last two years of alliance .
