Junaid’s Ouster at SMC: Threat to Survival, Stability always consequential

Stability and survival of defectors always remains under threat and Junaid Azim Matoo too like many other defectors could not finally withstand the pressure of hostile groups and had to surrender before the majority of the corporators who were loyal to him till yesterday. Interestingly the people who before his crowning as SMC Mayor took pride in his foreign education conspired against him through the same route of defection which he choose to contest previous minicipal election with the intent of occupying the hot seat at Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC). The actors did not change but the situation and scenario changed the intents and attitude of king makers sitting in Jammu and Delhi. Junaid Azim Matoo himself has a history of defections behind him as he switched over from Peoples Conference to National Conference man year ago the time when NC-Congress coalition government was running the affairs of the erstwhile Jammu & Kashmir state under the leadership of Omar Abdullah and returned to Peoples Conference the time when Sajad Gani Lone was being projected as a prospective candidate for the position of Chief Minister by ally BJP after the fall of Mehbooba Mufti led PDP-BJP coalition government in July 2018. Matoo himself a defector was banking upon a party which itself wrested power from Congress and other parties in two key states of the country even after loosing the assembly elections. So a low key defector had come into contact with the party cultivating the far more superior art of political defections in the country. In the recent years BJP has demonstrated it’s superiority over arch rival Congress to change not faces but regimes well in several states of the country. So dethroning Matoo was too easy a job for the party which has outsmarted the oldest political party of the country Congress not once but many a times in last six years and only via the route of defections.
The defectors quitting one by one a party which was BJP’s one time major ally in Jammu & Kashmir is a learning lesson for defectors in Jammu & Kashmir and Matoo must ponder over his defections of the past and gladly accept the hard reality that “ rolling stone gathers no mass”
Since it has been experienced over the period of years that most of the defectors tend to be corrupt . As hints are being dropped that a corporator allegedly involved in a huge bank fraud case released on bail recently is likely to be elevated to the position of Mayor SMC . What a crude joke it is that a party which takes pride in anti-corruption crusade in Jammu & Kashmir is dropping hints of elevating a bank fraud case accused to the position of Mayor SMC . The survival of the head of a municipal body can’t be stable with a party which wrested power from the country’s oldest political party Congress via the route of defections in two key states in recent months and not only deserted but also humiliated the leader of a political party which was it’s major ally for more than three years in Jammu & Kashmir. The defectors quitting one by one a party which was BJP’s one time major ally in Jammu & Kashmir is a learning lesson for defectors in Jammu & Kashmir and Matoo must ponder over his defections of the past and gladly accept the hard reality that “rolling stone gathers no mass”