Strangers to politics have come over the heads of mainstream veterans because of their own follies and they now even tend to even domonise the mainstream veterans of National Conference and Peoples’ Democratic Party the two major regional mainstream parties in Jammu & Kashmir. A man from the cultural background who choose to take political asylum initially in Peoples Domocratic Party and because of his opportunistic tendencies early this summer switched over to newly launched Jammu & Kashmir Apni Party (J&K AP) has in a veiled reference to the remarks of the top leaders of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and National Conference (NC) asked them to desist from misleading people of Kashmir by promising restoration of scrapped special status and statehood. He perhaps needs to be reminded the defectors are always liars and beggers can’t be choosers. No person in any part of the world can dare to lecture his employers of previous years but in Kashmir the professional trespassing allowed by the top leaders of the top mainstream parties has spoiled the political system and the democratic institutions to the extent that even strangers to politics lecture them on their political remarks. Had the top leaders of the two top mainstream parties-National Conference and PDP not brought the retiring government employees including people of bureaucratic, academic and cultural backgrounds to the highest legislative bodies of the erstwhile Jammu & Kashmir state, the political institutions won’t have been ruined the way they were spoiled by the strangers to politics.
While most of the strangers to politics promoted and elevated by the former chief ministers to unimaginable positions in previous years are daring to lecture them on the future of Jammu & Kashmir vis-à-vis the agenda of restoration of special status and statehood, few of them have been gifted top positions in the Jammu & Kashmir Government to silence their political masters of years. There is surely a lot for the top brass of top mainstream parties to learn from their bad experiences of defections and intrusions in politics.
Usually the majority of bureaucrats in other parts of the country prefer to enjoy smooth retired life and most of them like to write books and novels after their retirement, but in Jammu & Kashmir the top leaders of NC and PDP have encouraged the defection of bureaucrats even months and years before their retirement only to let down their own party leaders who serve people for decades together with the hope that sooner or later they will reach the top legislative bodies. By encouraging retiring officers and officials at the cost of their party workers the top mainstream leaders have emboldened strangers to politics to throw challenges to even the most popular leaders of the mainstream parties. A bad precedence set by most of the former Chief Ministers of erstwhile Jammu & Kashmir state in the previous years has threatened their own existence in politics. While most of the strangers to politics promoted and elevated by the former chief ministers to unimaginable positions in previous years are daring to lecture them on the future of Jammu & Kashmir vis-à-vis the agenda of restoration of special status and statehood, few of them have been gifted top positions in the Jammu & Kashmir Government to silence their political masters of years. There is surely a lot for the top brass of top mainstream parties to learn from their bad experiences of defections and intrusions in politics.
