Political ambitions on rise, Public aspirations on all time low

In post Article 370 bifurcation political scenario, the mainstream politicians of all hues in Kashmir show huge tendency for furthering the causes of their own political ambitions and very less concern for public aspirations hit hard by the imposition of new domicile law, new job policy, delimitation initiative, constitution of J&K Public Service Commission, bifurcation of the J&K House at New Delhi, bifurcation of the civil secretariat and the launch of a new recruitment drive under the new controversial domicile law. While some mainstream parties talk about political reconciliation with the political arrangement taking shape after the withdrawal of special status on August 5 last year, the grand old political party National Conference talks about the restoration of special status without daring to move en an urgency memo for the early hearing of the petition filed by it’s sitting parliament members to challenge the withdrawal of special status and the bifurcation of the erstwhile Jammu & Kashmir state into two union territories under the Jammu & Kashmir Reorganistation Act 2019. By all standards of understandabilities the Kashmir’s mainstream parties don’t have a common meeting ground. While the parties talking about political reconciliation with the post article 370 political arrangement in Jammu & Kashmir have failed to get central government closer to any agreement on the statehood, delimitation initiative, new job policy and new domicile law, the grand old political party National Conference has reduced it’s political activity to the press statements even after the release of it’s top leaders including the likes of Farooq Abdullah, Omar Abdullah and Ali Mohammad Sagar. Shockingly Omar Abdullah the National Conference Vice President and former Chief Minister has shown more concerns over the alleged atrocities of muslims in China and very less on the new domicile law, new delimitation initiative, a hostile job policy and new controversial media policy. Omar Abdullah’s attempt to raise questions on China’s internal security issue matter concerning muslim residents of that country is obviously his attempt to appease the present political dispensation at the central keeping in view the rising tempers over border dispute between New Delhi an Beijing.
The statements issued in recent days by National Conference, Peoples Democratic Party and newly launched J&K Apni Party show that they have divergent political stands over both the restoration of special status and as well as the implementation of news law in Jammu & Kashmir and are as such pulling in different directions in pursuit of their own political ambitions but not the core public aspirations of the people of Jammu & Kashmir.
Though Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) has a point to defend itself that the continuing house detention of it’s president Mehbooba Mufti under Public Safety Act (PSA) is a reason for it’s inability to roll out a new political road map for the post Article 370 abrogation political scenario in Jammu and Kashmir, but the party has a lot to explain over the silence of it’s top leaders including the likes of Ab Rehman Veeri, Abdul Haq Khan, Sartaj Madni and others release long back. The statements issued in recent days by National Conference, Peoples Democratic Party and newly launched J&K Apni Party show that they have divergent political stands over both the restoration of special status and as well as the implementation of news law in Jammu & Kashmir and are as such pulling in different directions in pursuit of their own political ambitions but not the core public aspirations of the people of Jammu & Kashmir.