The ideological politics is on a collapsing mode in Jammu & Kashmir the time when it has changed the colours and contours of national politics across India. While the party ruling at the centre takes pride in propagating the political ideology it has carried forward with cyclonic speed after its two successive landslide victories in 2014 and 2019 parliamentary elections, the regional mainstream parties in Kashmir are not only divorcing their decades old political ideologies but also compromising their political conscience just for control over district development councils (DDCs) in few districts. Seeking public mandate for their decades old political ideologies and using it for control over newly constituted DDCs, block panchayat bodies and village panchayats has become a new norm in Kashmir’s mainstream politics. Restoration of the position that existed on August 4,2019 demands resistance with consistency and commitment but both the leaders of the parties and as well as the elected representatives of panchayats and municipalities have reduced both their resistance and as well as consistency to votes for control over panchayat bodies and municipalities. True it is that the top brass of National Conference and Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) have shown the tendency to carry forward the resistance against central government’s August 5,2019 decisions over erstwhile Jammu & Kashmir state with consistency, but their political wisdom has come into question in the backdrop of their failures in choosing trustworthy partners for a trustworthy alliance and trustworthy candidates for a crucial election to the district development councils (DDCs). Keeping in view the political associations of Sajad Lone and his associates in Peoples’ Conference with the people of extremely a different ideology , the alliance with Peoples’ Conference was by all standards of understandabilities against sprits of political ideology owned by both National Conference and PDP without any difference of opinion.
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Though ideological commitment is the soul of politics but trust matters in the politics of resistance and as such reducing the trust deficit within their own parties is the major challenge for National Conference and PDP thrown up by their recent experiences in recently held DDC elections in Jammu & Kashmir.
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National Conference and PDP are shockingly blaming rival parties for the cross votes and the defections of the elected representative of their own parties without mustering the courage to own their own miscalculations in granting mandates to people of doubtful integrity for the recently held DDC elections. While the National Conference and PDP are so hugely suffering from the crisis of trust deficit that they have lost to opponents even in the districts where they had won majority of DDC seats, the parties fighting National Conference and PDP are keeping their flock toogether and consequently wining control in the districts where they are not in majority at all. Though ideological commitment is the soul of politics but trust matters in the politics of resistance and as such reducing the trust deficit within their own parties is the major challenge for National Conference and PDP thrown up by their recent experiences in recently held DDC elections in Jammu & Kashmir.
