The decisions of the Kashmir mainstream leaders after the recently held district development council (DDC) elections have proved it beyond doubt that they have not learnt any lesson even from the downgrading of the erstwhile Jammu & Kashmir state to a union territory and withdrawal of special status to it as once again they by the dint of their actions have proved that their actual plans are entirely different from their pre-election promises. Had the politics of deceit not been the only bench mark of their politics, they won’t encourage defections for control over district development councils’ (DDCs), panchyats and municipalities immediately after the DDC elections. Had politics of deceit been not the only bench mark of mainstream politics in Kashmir, the Peoples’ Conference Chairman Sajad Gani Lone the key founder of the Peoples’ Alliance For Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) won’t announce pull out of his party obviously for control over few DDCs with the overt and covert support of anti-PAGD parties . Instead of alleging trust deficit and encouragement of proxy candidates during DDC elections only after the declaration of the results, the Peoples Conference Chairman could have raised such issues quietly with PAGD leaders with suggestions for reducing the proxies to non entities even during elections. Though there is nothing new in the politics of deceit planned and executed again and again by the top mainstream parties but the people reposing faith and trust in them time and again are equally responsible for current chaos in Jammu & Kashmir. Though constituent parties of the Peoples’ Alliance For Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) promised a full fledged fight for restoration of pre August 5, 2019 position of erstwhile Jammu & Kashmir state in recently held DDC elections but the Peoples’ Conference one of key constituent parties of the alliance pulled out of the alliance days before the process for elections of DDC Chairpersons was about to begin both in Kashmir and as well as Jammu division.
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A single more pull out from PAGD would by all standards of understandabilities spoil all the resistance plans of the alliance to Pre August 5,2019 position of erstwhile Jammu & Kashmir state.
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A legal challenge to reservation of some DDC Chairperson posts for women is sufficient enough to indicate that plans are being rolled out to reduce the chances of the takeover of the majority of DDCs by PAGD in Kashmir valley. A vote to Peoples Conference candidates sought for restoration of pre-August 5,2019 position of Jammu & Kashmir state in the recently held DDC if used for the election of anti-PAGD candidates for the positions of DDC Chairpersons would be the biggest ever betrayal of the Peoples Conference in the post 1989 phase of mainstream politics in Jammu & Kashmir. Peoples Conference has by the dint of it’s actions proved it that it’s plans were entirely different from it’s promises and other constituent parties of PAGD following the suit is a possibility that can’t be ruled out. After Peoples’ Conference pull out from PAGD, the Kashmir mainstream is as divided as it was before the August 5, 2019 moves of the incumbent central government on erstwhile Jammu & Kashmir state. Future plans of PAGD constituents would show their commitment to the agenda they have unveiled and endorsed after the release of top leaders almost eight months ago. A single more pull out from PAGD would by all standards of understandabilities spoil all the resistance plans of the alliance to Pre August 5,2019 position of erstwhile Jammu & Kashmir state.
