Knowing that the incumbent Narendra Modi led BJP government at the centre is talking about Vajpayee doctrine but pursuing a new doctrine the artchitect of which is Ajit Dovel the Security Advisor to the Prime Minister the Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti should not have started ground work from Srinagar but from New Delhi. Had Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti started the ground work with behind the curtain talks over his ceasefire issue with the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Rajnath Singh ,Security Advisor Ajeet Dovel the central government won’t have got yet another opportunity to ditch and humiliate publicly chief minister over an issue concerning stabilization of peace and security in Jammu & Kashmir. Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti in fact won’t have imagined about the non seriousness central government has shown over his proposal even after the J&K BJP spokesman Sunil Sethi publicly conveyed his party’s disagreement with the proposal as none else than the Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh publicly expressed his willingness to talk to the Chief Minister over her proposal before taking a call over the proposal on ceasefire in Kashmir.
The rejection of the call of the All Party Meeting for ceasefire by the Defence Minister is a blow to the mainstream political parties who have already lost touch with the people at grass root in Kashmir and a vindication of the views of the separatists who day after day, year after and month after month accuse Delhi of experimenting ideas and proposals not matching the ground realities in Jammu & Kashmir.
To the utter surprise of the Chief Minister it was not the home minister but the defence minister Nirmala Sithuraman who rejected the ceasefire proposal even without bothering to take it to the cabinet committee on security (CCS) for consideration or discussion. The rejection of the call of the All Party Meeting for ceasefire by the Defence Minister is a blow to the mainstream political parties who have already lost touch with the people at grass root in Kashmir and a vindication of the views of the separatists who day after day, year after and month after month accuse Delhi of experimenting ideas and proposals not matching the ground realities in Jammu & Kashmir. In this whole process the PDP running a coalition government in alliance with BJP is the biggest looses as its claim on bringing South Poles closer to North Poles on the basis of the “ agenda of alliance” scripted for building a working relationship between the two coalition partners has proved a farce.
