Disrespect to popular mandate

For the last three year the PDP has acted in total disregard to the agenda on which the party fought last assembly elections and was voted to power. Shockingly the PDP after getting the mandate against BJP stitched an alliance with the saffron party and the public anger fueling on the streets in Kashmir shows unwillingness of Kashmiri’s to endorse the party’s alliance with BJP. PDP though many a times in the past that the party’s alliance with BJP was necessitated by the massive mandate the saffron party got in Jammu region. True it is that BJP had the massive mandate of the Jammu and PDP had got an equally strong mandate from Kashmir valley but after coming to together on slogan of regional bonding the PDP surrendered its agenda and outright shut its eyes in responding to the challenges BJP posed to the article 370, article 35 A and other legislation giving special status to the state within and outside the court including the Supreme Court of the country. Now when Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti is showing the intents of holding panchayat polls in the state, she is talking about the necessities of the resumption of Indo-Pak friendly relations. Surprisingly Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti is floating the ideas which are disputed by the utterances of civilian and military leadership of the country. Army Chief General Bipin Rawat talking about a nuclear war with Pakistan and Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh shows the intents of the military and central leadership to continue animosity with Pakistan and reject the demand for any laxity in the conduct of cordon and search operations (CASO) in Kashmir valley where the militants are killed in counter and civilians at the encounter sites.
As even navies can understand the situation the main opposition parties National Conference and Congress are conveying their apprehensions about the conduct of panchayat elections in a peaceful atmosphere. Before talking about the panchayat polls better for Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti to create a conducive atmosphere for such a massive electoral exercise. Last two years of military and police offensive against the militants and stone pelting crowds have neither boiled down the intensity of anger against the PDP nor the tendency of youth to join the militant ranks. Unfortunately army chief has questioned the working of teachers in schools but not the Chief Minister but the education minister of the state has challenged the right of the army chief to talk about the working of schools in Kashmir. Had the Chief Minister herself questioned the right of army chief to raise questions on the working of teachers in Kashmir schools it would sent out a stronger message to both the civilian and military leaderships at the centre. The civilian and military leadership intervening in the affairs of the public institutions run by the state government is in itself an indication that right to use the mandate even to run the routine working of the public institutions of the state is denied to a popular government headed by Mehbooba Mufti.