The Jammu & Kashmir once a special status state has been reduced to a union territory with only panchanayats and municipal bodies only as the central government does not even bother to execute it’s own decision of making it a Union Territory with assembly even after full implementation of J&K reorganization act 2019 . The fault lies more on the mainstream leaders of the Jammu & Kashmir and very less on the BJP controlled central government headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as facts have revealed themselves that defections otherwise an unwelcome trend for the good health of a democracy have become a new attraction for mainstream leaders just for fighting against each other for control over district development councils (DDCs) to which the elections were for the first time recently held in Jammu & Kashmir. The defections an insult to democracy in other parts of the country is shamelessly no insult to the Kashmir mainstream parties as they continue fighting for control over DDCs’. Though leaders mainstream parties should have been hanging their heads in shame to see themselves coming down to fighting from control over Jammu & Kashmir Government to district development councils (DDCs), Panchayats and municipal bodies but they are shamelessly fighting for control over DDCs right now. Though irrefutable fact is that the newly launched Jammu & Kashmir Apni Party (JKAP) started encouraging defections from other parties to it as part of it’s attempt to get control over newly constituted DDCs but shockingly the Peoples’ Conference Chairman Sajad Gani Lone reduced from chief ministerial aspirant to the spokesman of Farooq Abdullah as head of peoples’ Alliance For Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) till very recently has finally announced pull out of his party from PAGD obviously to try for control of his party over couple of district development councils (DDCs) likely and hopefully with the overt and covert collaboration with J&K Apni Party (JKAP), Er Rasheed’s Awami Itehad party (AIP) and may be even BJP directly . Worth noticing were the reports about the meeting of a top PAGD leader with Union Home Minister Amit Shah went viral on social media few days before pull out announcement of Peoples’ Conference from PAGD by it’s Chairman Sajad Gani Lone.
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Never forget that usually the assemblies of state and union territories (UTs) define the laws for panchayats and municipalities but in case of Jammu & Kashmir not the proposed UT assembly but the home ministry of the central government has defined laws and rules for panchayats and municipalities. Question can be asked that why should central government restore statehood to Jammu & Kashmir with restoration of land and job rights as per it’s own commitment on the floor of the parliament when the parties concerned particularly Kashmir mainstream parties have reduced their politics to control over DDCs, municipalities and panchayats.
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People in mainstream politics seeking road map from PAGD and alleging encouragement of proxies in DDC elections by PAGD constituent parties could have also offered solutions to prove themselves leaders of greater political wisdom. Whatever may be the accusations and counter accusations of Pro and anti-PAGD mainstream parties but the irrefutable fact is that Kashmir mainstream parties who once used to enter into bargaining arguments with the national parties like Congress and BJP have now shockingly come down to the level of fighting for control over district development councils (DDCs) . So virtually from fighting for control over Jammu & Kashmir Government , the Kashmir mainstream leaders by virtue of their own actions have come down to the level of fighting for control over district development councils (DDCs) and in the process shockingly their own actions have reduced Jammu & Kashmir a special state of yesteryears to a union territory with only municipalities and panchayats instead of union territory with assembly. Fighting for panchayats, municipalities and DDCs but demanding statehood with restoration of land and job rights are the two parallel lines which have no meeting points. Never forget that usually the assemblies of state and union territories (UTs) define the laws for panchayats and municipalities but in case of Jammu & Kashmir not the proposed UT assembly but the home ministry of the central government has defined laws and rules for panchayats and municipalities. Question can be asked that why should central government restore statehood to Jammu & Kashmir with restoration of land and job rights as per it’s own commitment on the floor of the parliament when the parties concerned particularly Kashmir mainstream parties have reduced their politics to control over DDCs, municipalities and panchayats.
