The highly influential Gujjar leader and National Conference veteran Mian Atalf Ahmad of the Kangan area of Central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district deserves all appreciations for foiling the attempt of BJP’s National General Secretary Ram Madhav to polarise the majority muslim community just for the furtherance of his party’s poll prospects in Jammu & Kashmir . Knowing that an ideological rival standing at the centre of a controversy over imposition of highly provocative constitutional and institutional measures on unwilling populations in Jammu & Kashmir can never be a welcome guest for any influential leader connected with the people at the grass roots, the visiting BJP National General Secretary should not have even thought about seeking an audience with his ideological rival Mian Altaf Ahmad known for his die hard stand on the restoration of special status and statehood to Jammu & Kashmir. Ram Madhav a political veteran of the rightwing BJP should not have fallen into the trap of a dirty political trick of one of his party’s local political workers in central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district only to face a severe political embarrassment in a hostile political atmosphere in Kashmir.
Knowing that Mian Altaf Ahmad is a highly influential Gujar leader with unmatched following in almost all the pahari areas of Kashmir valley and as well as Jammu division ,the BJP National General Secretary in an attempt to woo the top Gujar leader was obviously part of his plan to fuel dissidence in the grand old mainstream party National Conference presently planning to carry forward the battle against abrogation of special status and bifurcation of erstwhile Jammu & Kashmir state into two union territories to it’s logical conclusion in the supreme court of the country.
Political wisdom demands that Madhav should have verified about the political antecedents of Mian Altaf before asking any of his party workers to contact the highly influential Gujjar leader for a meeting with him in a hostile political atmosphere in Kashmir. In fact BJP leaders have been trying to polarise the majority muslim community in Jammu & Kashmir only for the purposes of deriving political mileages from a well conceived idea of polarization plan since the fall of Mehbooba led coalition government in July 2018. Knowing that Mian Altaf Ahmad is a highly influential Gujar leader with unmatched following in almost all the pahari areas of Kashmir valley and as well as Jammu division ,the BJP National General Secretary in an attempt to woo the top Gujar leader was obviously part of his plan to fuel dissidence in the grand old mainstream party National Conference presently planning to carry forward the battle against abrogation of special status and bifurcation of erstwhile Jammu & Kashmir state into two union territories to it’s logical conclusion in the supreme court of the country. The six party alliance endorsing the Gupkar declaration under the leadership of National Conference President Farooq Abdullah with a pledge to carry forward the legal battle against the withdrawal of special status and statehood to Jammu & Kashmir to logical conclusion in the supreme court of the country has obviously thrown up a big challenge to in implementation of it’s plans of delimitation and assembly elections in Jammu & Kashmir.
