Amid boycott of the ongoing municipal and upcoming panchayat election by the National Conference (NC) and PDP the rumours about two largest regional political parties joining hands to form a new government in Jammu & Kashmir for joint fight against challenge to Article 35-A were officially owned by both the parties with senior PDP leader and former Finance Minister Altaf Bukhari endorsing the rumours by saying “ personally not opposed to the idea of NC and PDP coming together like SP and BSP united in Utter Pradesh and National Conference senior leader Mian Altaf echoing the call from Altaf Bukhari with the words “ yes to joint fight on protecting article 35 A but call on government formation can be taken by Omar Abdullah only”. Fifteen days have elapsed but there is no word from either the National Conference President Farooq Abdullah and Party’s Vice President Omar Abdullah or the PDP President Mehbooba Mufti and this shows the non seriousness of the two largest regional political parties of the state NC and PDP in coming together despite both beating drums on fight against challenges to article 35 A in the supreme court . Much before Abdullah’s’ and PDP President Mehbooba Mufti would show signs of approachment for forming a new government in Jammu & Kashmir which would vehemently defend article 35 A in the supreme court of the country, the new Governor Satya Pal Malik virtually endorsed the statement of top BJP leaders by saying “the boycott of National Conference (NC) and Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) to municipal and panchayat elections would encourage militants in Kashmir”.
Governor Satya Pal Malik has outsmarted both National Conference (NC) and PDP in the very first round and before he outsmarts them in the second round better for Abdullah’s’ both Omar and Farooq and PDP President Mehbooba Mufti to break their silence over Altaf Bukhari’s and secure the agenda of defending effectively article 35 A and also their own survival. This is not the time for NC and PDP to wait and see that who will bell the cat?
So virtually governor Satya Pal Malik has chosen to pose like the leader of a political party readying itself to take head on both National Conference (NC) and Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) and rather cut out his agenda against both the largest mainstream political parties of the state. Let Abdullah’s’ both Farooq and Omar and Mehbooba Mufti not forget that Satya Pal Malik was the Governor of Bihar when Chief Minister of that state Nitesh Kumar severed his ties with Lalu Prasad’s RJD to restore his alliance with the BJP. So imposing Governor’s rule in Jammu & Kashmir and bringing in a new governor like Satya Pal Malik shows the political calculations of BJP in going ahead with municipal and panchayat elections preferring not to concede the demand of NC and PDP over article 35 A . By all standards of political understand abilities it can be said that Governor Satya Pal Malik has outsmarted both National Conference (NC) and PDP in the very first round and before he outsmarts them in the second round better for Abdullah’s’ both Omar and Farooq and PDP President Mehbooba Mufti to break their silence over Altaf Bukhari’s and secure the agenda of defending effectively article 35 A and also their own survival. This is not the time for NC and PDP to wait and see that who will bell the cat?
