Though ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party was expected to put on the top of the demand lists its “self rule” proposal scripted by the senior most party leader and former Deputy Chief Minister before the recently appointed Kashmir Special Representative Dineshwar Sharma but the party top choose to depute its Vice President Sartaj Madni for a meeting with Sharma just to demand a result oriented dialogue in Jammu & Kashmir. Demanding a result oriented dialogue and not pressing hard for the “self rule” demand has created an impression among the people in Kashmir that PDP top brass in contradiction of its earlier attempts to project the party as a stake holder has virtually replaced the “self rule” script drafted by one of the party founders Muzaffar Hussain Baig with the “ agenda of alliance” scripted after lot of deliberations by the likes of incumbent PDP ministers Nayeem Akther and Haseeb Drabu in consensus with the RSS remote controlled BJP. Shockingly the incumbent minister and government spokesman Nayeem Akher has termed the engagement efforts of the newly appointed Kashmir Special Representative Dineshwar Sharma as “dialogue with a difference”. Question can be asked does omitting the word “self rule” mean “dialogue with a difference” for Nayeem Akhter the government spokesman and Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti also holding the presidency of the PDP. Unfortunately PDP is following the politics National Conference played to hurt and humiliate gullible Kashmiris during last seventy year’s of post partition politics in the state. Kashmiris reposed trust and confidence in the leadership National Conference from time to time but three generations of Abdullahs’ could never find themselves true to their words.
Madni owes an explanation to the people of Kashmir for his party’s silence on demand for“ self rule” a commitment repeated thousand times even by the party founder late Mufti Mohammad Sayeed as otherwise party’s silence on “self rule” shows its disrespect to “self rule” script drafted by party legenda Muzaffar Hussain Baig almost a decade ago.
Upset with the tricks of political deceit three generations of Abdullahs’ played for furthering the purposes of electoral politics in the state, the people of Kashmir granted an opportunity to late Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and Peoples Democratic Party which they saw emerging as an alternative to National Conference. Shockingly the PDP leadership too went back on its commitments made in the election manifestos’ and the core political agenda. So Muftis’like Abdullahs’ have betrayed Kashmiris and sown the seeds of political discontent in valley. PDP Vice President Sartaj Madni did not utter even a single word on “ Self Rule” demand after the meeting of his party delegation with the Kashmir Special Representative Dineshwar Sharma. Madni owes an explanation to the people of Kashmir for his party’s silence on demand for“ self rule” a commitment repeated thousand times even by the party founder late Mufti Mohammad Sayeed as otherwise party’s silence on “self rule” shows its disrespect to “self rule” script drafted by party legenda Muzaffar Hussain Baig almost a decade ago.
