With Central government, commanded and controlled by BJP, experimenting all arm twisting methods to restrict peaceful political activities of the top separatist leaders for restoring calm in Kashmir , PDP heading a coalition government run in alliance with BJP is allowing intervention of the central government even at the cost of its connection with the people at the grass roots. Though relations between PDP and BJP have survived many controversies on contentious political issues during last more than two and a half years of coalition rule in the state but BJP’s blunt denials to accommodate PDP’s concerns on contentious issues don’t not give indications of political stability in the state. Total denials of BJP top brass on PDP’s demand for engagement with “all stakeholders, including Hurriyat” are giving indications of simmering differences between the two coalition partners even over dialogue with the separatist leadership in Kashmir. Even after the killing of over one hundred civilians during continuing unrest in Kashmir triggered by the killing of top Hizb Ul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani in July last year, the BJP government run under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not willing to offer any concession to the people of Kashmir. Surprisingly not local BJP leaders but the top leaders of BJP including the likes of Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh and Arun Jaitley are vehemently opposing the PDP’s demand for dialogue with separatist leadership. While BJP’s top leaders are desperate to see a change on the ground by blowing hot and cold over the current phase of student unrest in Kashmir, the PDP top brass does not see any scope for any improvement in the present situation in Kashmir in the absence of political engagement either with the joint separatist leadership in Kashmir or the Pakistan government.
Though Late Mufti Mohammad Sayeed had said it in his life time that “it was a coalition of North and South Poles and the alliance was stitched to bridge the gulf between Kashmir and Jammu”, but the recent utterances of the top BJP leaders over current crisis in Kashmir proved it again that the contradictions between Jammu and Kashmir are irreconcilable.
The two coalition partners treading different paths doesn’t augur well for stability of the PDP-BJP alliance which has more than three years to complete six year term in the state. Coalition partners PDP and BJP pulling in different directions on restoration of normalcy in Kashmir don’t bother about the survival of the coalition government but are busy in creating issues to deflect the attention of people from the current phase of unrest in educational institutions to non issues like sting operation of national TV channels against separatist leaders and BJP’s claim on rotational chief ministership. Attempts to deflect the attention of people from sting operation of national TV channels against separatist leaders and BJP’s claim on rotational chief minister-ship will only complicate the already complicated situation of student unrest in educational institutions. Though Late Mufti Mohammad Sayeed had said it in his life time that “it was a coalition of North and South Poles and the alliance was stitched to bridge the gulf between Kashmir and Jammu”, but the recent utterances of the top BJP leaders over current crisis in Kashmir proved it again that the contradictions between Jammu and Kashmir are irreconcilable.
