Though the revolt of some PDP legislators against Party President Mehbooba Mufti i does not give right to the leaders of other mainstream political parties to show any concern on war cries of the dissident legislator against the party top brass but senior Congress leader Tariq Hameed Kara who resigned from PDP over rejection of his demands for dropping a couple of ministers from the Mehbooba government two years back is still trying to link his resignation with PDP’s alliance with BJP. Fact remains that Tariq Hameed Kara choose to quit as member parliament and resign from the Peoples’ Democratic Party over the demand for dropping two ministers from the Mehbooba government but not against PDP’s alliance with BJP. Had political conscience motivated Kara not to be part of any power sharing agreement with BJP then he would have choosen to quit PDP the day PDP founder late Mufti Mohammad Sayeed had choosen to run a coalition government in alliance with BJP in March 2015 but he not only in the lifetime of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed endorsed PDP’s alliance with BJP but even after Sayeed’s demise in December 2015 he vehemently endorsed the election of Mehbooba Mufti as leader of the PDP legislator party at a meeting of party legislators called to ratify the decision of party president on alliance with BJP.
Instead of mocking at PDP top brass over the dissidence of some party legislators in the aftermath of the fall of the Mehbooba government better it would have been for Tariq Hameed Kara to question the moral right of the PDP’s dissident legislators to call Mehbooba Mufti an incompetent chief minister few days after the fall of the government but not even once during last more than two years of the survival of PDP-BJP coalition government.
Had Kara choosen to quit PDP and resign from the parliament after insisting for severing ties with BJP instead of demanding ouster of a couple of ministers from the Mehbooba government the people in Kashmir would find him on his side today. He resigned from the PDP and as well as the parliament to join Congress a party which is responsible for pulling down several popular governments in the state only to demolish autonomy and erode the special status of the state enjoyed by it under article 370 of Indian constitution. Instead of mocking at PDP top brass over the dissidence of some party legislators in the aftermath of the fall of the Mehbooba government better it would have been for Tariq Hameed Kara to question the moral right of the PDP’s dissident legislators to call Mehbooba Mufti an incompetent chief minister few days after the fall of the government but not even once during last more than two years of the survival of PDP-BJP coalition government.
