Failed to deliver the promises they made to the people since 1975 both Abdullahs’ and Muftis’ are now desperately trying to play new tricks for power and pelf and the latest trick National Conference President Farooq Abdullah tried to play is his remark over third party mediation on Kashmir. Today when Farooq Abdullah finds himself and his party struggling for power, he has choosen to almost steal the agenda of the Joint separatist political leadership comprising Hurriyat (G) Chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Hurriyat (M) Chairman Mirwaiz Molvi Umar Farooq and JKLF ChairmanYaseen Malik spearheading the current phase of resistance struggle in Kashmir . Even naives in Kashmir understand the motives of Farooq Abdullah in harping on the demand for third party mediation on Kashmir as his remark remind the people of the statements of PDP founder and former Chief Minister late Mufti Mohammad Sayeed from 1998-2002 when Farooq Abdullah was the Chief Minister with a brute two third majority in the assembly and used to even seek the forcible deportation of separatist leaders instead of demanding even a bilateral dialogue between India and Pakistan over Kashmir. Today when PDP President Mehbooba Mufti dismisses Farooq Abdullah demand for third party mediation over Kashmir, it seems Mehbooba Mufti has forgotten all that what her father later Mufti Mohammad Sayeed used to say over dialogue on Kashmir.
The time when people have seen them showing loyalty to Delhi and not the people who elected them, both the ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) and the opposition National Conference (NC) now popularly called “political cheaters” in Kashmir should stop selling dreams which are beyond their reach and political control.
It was Mehbooba Mufti’s father late Mufti Mohammad Sayeed the founder of ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party (PD) who even threatened pull out from the erstwhile Gh Nabi Azad led Congress-PDP coalition government over his demand on phased withdrawal of troops from the populated areas of the state and today when his party is in power her daughter Mehbooba Mufti the incumbent Chief Minister dismisses the idea of third party intervention and instead take a lead role in seeking more and more deployments of the army and paramilitaries to further the causes of remilitarization planed by the present Narendra Modi led NDA government at the centre. If National Conference failed to restore the autonomy to pre-1953 position promised in the Indira-Abdullah accord of 1975, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) did not keep its promises on protection of article 370 by allowing the people of disintegrating tendencies to lay legal traps on the article 35 A governing property rights act, the state flag and the article 370 in Jammu & Kashmir High Court, Delhi High Court and Supreme Court of the country. Ironically both ruling PDP and the opposition National Conference instead of seeking apologies for the betrayals they committed in past are tending to cheat people either in the name of dialogue or the special status of the state. The time when people have seen them showing loyalty to Delhi and not the people who elected them, both the ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) and the opposition National Conference (NC) now popularly called “political cheaters” in Kashmir should stop selling dreams which are beyond their reach and political control.
