Though Gh Nabi Azad the Congress veteran from Jammu & Kashmir and the outgoing leader of the opposition in the Rajaya Sabha- the upper house of the parliament represented well the people of Jammu & Kashmir to their entire satisfaction , but two PDP parliament members Nazir Ahmad Laway and Mir Mohammad Fayaz misrepresented both their party as well as the people who voted for the party they represented in the 2014 assembly election which turned out to be last assembly elections of Jammu & Kashmir as a full fledged state with special status under article 370 and article 35 A of the Indian constitution. PDP’s outgoing parliamentarians seeking restoration of statehood and special status under article 370 and article 35 A of the constitution in their farewell speech makes no sense as they now cease to be members of the upper house of the parliament. They were morally obliged not only to defend the statehood and special status of the erstwhile Jammu & Kashmir state and agitate persistently over the demand for restoration of both the statehood and the special status but were also morally obliged to consistently agitate the extension of several central laws to Jammu & Kashmir and fiddling with several land and job laws which remained in force for about last seven decades in the erstwhile state. Not to talk about their defending the statehood and special status of erstwhile Jammu & Kashmir state and fight for it’s restoration after August 5, 2019 decisions of the central government, they not only maintained silence over central government’s August 5, 2019 decisions for one and a half year but one of the two MPs Nazir Ahmad Laway was seen attending some key political meetings of top BJP leaders in Kashmir valley traditionally the stronghold of non BJP mainstream political parties in Jammu and Kashmir since downgraded to a union territory . In fact PDP Patron late Mufti Mohammad Sayeed did not sent them to Rajaya Sabha for the purposes public representation but just for settling political scores over some of his key political opponents in two valley districts.
The tragedy of the mainstream Kashmir politics is that top leaders of the top parties always encourag non entities just to reduce the political influence of their rivals in selected pockets of the areas of their own political interest and in the process the sanctity and strength of public representation has been demolished by the people who always claimed to be the champions of public representation. So better for the people of Jammu & Kashmir to have no representation in Rajaya Sabha than being represented again and again by opportunists and collaborators of mass based mainstreams leaders.
PDP preferred to choose Nazir Ahmad Laway from Kulgam district for South Kashmir Rajaya Sabha seat just to empower him politically against CPI(M) Secretary M Y Tarigami and similarly the party preferred Mir Mohammad Fayaz for the North Kashmir Rajaya Sabha seat just for empowering him politically against Peoples Conference Chairman Sajad Gani Lone who was then allying with BJP for a single cabinet berth. The tragedy of the mainstream Kashmir politics is that top leaders of the top parties always encourag non entities just to reduce the political influence of their rivals in selected pockets of the areas of their own political interest and in the process the sanctity and strength of public representation has been demolished by the people who always claimed to be the champions of public representation. So better for the people of Jammu & Kashmir to have no representation in Rajaya Sabha than being represented again and again by opportunists and collaborators of mass based mainstreams leaders.
