Narrators of the scrapped special status used to promise it’s protection till August 5 last year and are promising it’s restoration now a year after it’s revocation. The leaders who couldn’t protect special status last year have to make people believe that they have the political capacity and the strength to take the fight for it’s restoration to logical conclusion within a given time frame. Politically the dice is not loaded in favour of the restoration of the scrapped special status as the incumbent central government has not only scrapped the special status but has also embarked on a plan of implementing new citizenship rights on it’s own terms and conditions. So legal fight remains the only option for the restoration of Jammu & Kashmir’s special status in the given circumstances and obviously the narrators of special status can’t give any time frame for the final outcome of their legal fight on restoration of Pre-August 5 position in Jammu & Kashmir. Though revival of political activities suspended on August 5 last year is a good omen for restoration of democracy but even the Prime Minister of the country did not promise restoration of statehood in his Independence day address from the ramparts of the historical red fort in Delhi. When even Prime Minister of the country does not promise restoration of statehood on a key national day, the hopes generated by the narrators of special status don’t find any takers in Jammu & Kashmir particularly the Kashmir valley. Shockingly the narrators of Jammu & Kashmir’s special status don’t dare even to announce a public campaign for restoration of scrapped special status as they are hearing taunts like “not a single soul cried for detained leaders after the abrogation of special status after August 5 last year” and as such message goes out that the narrator’s of special status restoration are not popular enough to embark on a protest plan against the withdrawal of special status. So the narrators of scrapped special status have to demonstrate their political strength and public acceptability before talking about the demand for restoration of special status.
Taking pride in democracy is easier but bringing government to it’s knees over the restoration of basic democratic rights is a Himalayan challenge for any single party or an alliance of several parties. The narrators of scrapped special status have to seek guarantees over restoration of basic democratic rights before pronouncing a plan for carrying out a political battle for restoration of special status. It is for the narrators of special status to take future course of action and prove themselves the leaders having the capacity and strength to lead people from the front instead waiting for others to lead them.
Narrators of scrapped special status have to show the capacity to change the fate of mainstream politics not by words but by their actions on ground in Jammu & Kashmir. Taking pride in democracy is easier but bringing government to it’s knees over the restoration of basic democratic rights is a Himalayan challenge for any single party or an alliance of several parties. The narrators of scrapped special status have to seek guarantees over restoration of basic democratic rights before pronouncing a plan for carrying out a political battle for restoration of special status. It is for the narrators of special status to take future course of action and prove themselves the leaders having the capacity and strength to lead people from the front instead waiting for others to lead them.
