Public Darbars without public

It is for the Chief Minister to keep a vigil on the field visits of the ministers and party legislators in their parent districts and oversee their conduct in holding review meetings and party conventions from time to time.
When PDP was in opposition, the party’s legislators used to mock at Omar Abdullah for holding public darbars and more so after the 2010 unrest but now this time PDP itself in power is holding public darbars in the aftermath last year’s unrest, the party legislators roam around Chief Minister in public drarbars just for the transfers of blue eyed officials from other districts to their parent districts. Though the participation of the general public in public darbars has to be ensured at all costs but ironically the public darbars conducted by Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti herself are attended mostly by the PDP workers also. Keeping in the view the deepening alienation of the people in the aftermath of last year’s unrest the PDP legislators could arrange direct interactions between the Chief Minister and parents of those injured by bullets and pellets in public protests since July 2016 when unrest broke out in valley in the aftermath of the killing of top Hizb commander Burhan Wani, but ironically the PDP legislators don’t bother to do obviously for the reasons of their total disconnection with the people at grass roots. The orders for the release of the first time stone pelters should have come from the public darbars presided over by Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti herself, but shocking the Union Home ministry has ordered the release of first time stone pelters from Delhi not on the recommendations of the state’s elected Chief Minister but on the preliminary report of Dineshwar Sharma the central government’s special representative on dialogue in Jammu & Kashmir.
Shocking the ministers during their visits to their home districts are holding parallel public darbars not to take stock of the follow up of the decisions taken by Chief Minister in her public darbars but to take different decisions on the matters already brought into the notice of Chief Minister. Though Chief Minister should have taken a very strong note of the ant-people posturing of both her party legislators and as well as ministers tending to convey the message that they are monarchs in their own kingdoms, but no strong action taken against ministers or the legislators for tending to undo the actions of Chief Minister and encourage the postings of those officials on key positions who for one reason or the other possess their clout. Now it is for the Chief Minister to keep a vigil on the field visits of the ministers and party legislators in their parent districts and oversee their conduct in holding review meetings and party conventions from time to time. Chief Minister has to ensure that participation of the general public is preferred over the participation of her not of party legislators and workers in the public darbars presided by her at district headquarters.