Domicile law & Overpowered mainstream

Silence of Abdullahs’ and the reported move of Chief of the newly launched Jammu & Kashmir Apni Party Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari to meet Prime Minister and the Home Minister over the application of new domicile law in Jammu & Kashmir prove once more a point that the Kashmir mainstream leaders are prepared to work under a new political arrangement designed and drafted by the incumbent central government. Imposition of more and more provocative central laws over Jammu & Kashmir during last more than seven months is a well conceived idea of conveying a message to the Kashmir’s mainstream that day’s of political bargaining for mainstream parties over key legislative matters are over . Discredited and humiliated one after the other since August 5 last year the day when the erstwhile Jammu & Kashmir state was bifurcated into two union territories and special status was withdrawn to it, all the Kashmir mainstream leaders have to either agree to new political arrangement designed and drafted by the incumbent central government or prepare for a long battle for restoration of Pre-August 5, 2019 position of erstwhile Jammu & Kashmir state. The low key responses of National Conference, the Peoples’ Democratic Party, the newly floated Jammu & Kashmir Apni Party and the Peoples Conference to the enactment of new domicile law in Jammu & Kashmir are sufficient enough to indicate that the mainstream parties have shown their willingness to worker under a new political arrangement drafted and designed by the central government for last more than seven months. Though National Conference and Peoples Conference have independently challenged the August 5 decisions of the central government including J&K Reorganisation Act 2019, withdrawal of article 370 and scrapping of article 35 A in the supreme court of the country but presently they don’t bother even to move an urgency application for an interim direction against the domicile law which by all standards of understandabilies would be the substitute to erstwhile state subject law governed by specific provisions of already scrapped Article 35 A and Article 370.
While the fact remains that the politics of deceit and mistrust propagated by Abdullahs’ and Muftis’ for decades together guided the fortunes of the people of erstwhile Jammu & Kashmir state since 1947, the BJP commanded and controlled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has snatched the right to guide the fortunes of people of Jammu & Kashmir from all the mainstream leaders who one after the other failed to successfully seek approvals of the political narratives of their own wishes from the central government.
True it is that the Supreme Court has already refused an interim direction to the petitioners against the August 5 decisions saying therein that top court is not powerless and in the wake of any judgment favouring their pleas it would reverse all the actions which may be taken in violation of J&K’s scrapped special status but the parties to the dispute in the supreme court like National Conference and Peoples’ Conference can’t deny the fact that as petitioners they have the right to agitate to the matter and put on record their grievances before the apex court of the country. Though the mainstream parties have limited options now but still they haven’t lost the big opportunity of identifying themselves with the wishes and aspirations of the people of Jammu & Kashmir. The utterances of all the Kashmir mainstream leaders particularly the released Abdullahs’ and Altaf Bukhari show that they have decided to accept the changes, rather than prepare for a long-drawn battle for restoration of pre-August 5 position of erstwhile Jammu & Kashmir. While the fact remains that the politics of deceit and mistrust propagated by Abdullahs’ and Muftis’ for decades together guided the fortunes of the people of erstwhile Jammu & Kashmir state since 1947, the BJP commanded and controlled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has snatched the right to guide the fortunes of people of Jammu & Kashmir from all the mainstream leaders who one after the other failed to successfully seek approvals of the political narratives of their own wishes from the central government.