The failure of the Peoples’ Alliance For Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) to win the positions of Chairpersons and Vice Chairpersons of the newly elected district development councils (DDCs) even in the districts where it had a majority shows the political incoherence in the ranks of the alliance formed to fight for restoration of special status and statehood as it existed on Augus4,2019 . Had the PAGD shown the political coherence in it’s fight against the enforcement of new laws on citizenship and property rights and extension of new central laws on subjects like property tax and new industrial investment policy without the consent and approval of the elected representatives of Jammu & Kashmir, the fear of chaos and confusion panicking the hapless populations of Jammu & Kashmir won’t be existing with the intensity it is existing now in both Kashmir valley and as well as Jammu division. While in Kashmir the PAGD has lost the opportunity of wining the positions of Chairpersons and Vice Chairpersons of district development councils (DDCs’) even in districts where alliance had won majority of the seats in the recently DDC elections, the alliance under the leadership of National Conference Provincial President Devender Singh Rana thwarted strong defection moves of the opposition parties to win the elections of Chairpersons and Vice Chairpersons in districts like Ramban. After the DDC elections the PAGD could not even keep it’s flock together as Sajad Lone announced his party’s decision to walk out from the alliance and the events that followed the quitting of alliance by Peoples’ Conference saw PAGD parties pulling in different directions as the alliance did not even name any other person for the position of Spokesperson vacated by Sajad Lone’s quitting. While PDP President Mehbooba Mufti held a rally in Anantnag and National Conference Vice President Omar Abdullah held a public meeting in Kulgam, the alliance did not even think about holding even a single joint rally in any part of Kashmir valley after the election of Chairpersons and Vice Chairpersons for the newly elected district development councils.
PAGD leaders have to keep it in mind that not words but actions would show their political coherence in their fight against the enforcement of new laws on citizenship and property rights and extension of new central laws on subjects like property tax , new industrial investment policy and new delimitation of assembly and parliamentary constituencies without the consent and approval of the elected representatives of Jammu & Kashmir
Shockingly the PAGD did not call a meeting to evolve a consensus over it’s response to an invite from the delimitation commission for participation of three National Conference Parliament members in in it’s maiden meeting and instead National Conference without seeking the consent of it’s allies in PAGD announced it’s decision of boycotting the delimitation meeting. While parliament members like Mahua Moitra and Assadud Din Owaisi spoke about the drastic reduction in the proportional representation of Kashmiri officers in mainland administration of Jammu & Kashmir, the three MPs of National Conference did not utter even a single word over the sidelining of Kashmiri officers from the mainland administration in Jammu & Kashmir, imposition of property tax, controversial mining policy and the new industrial investment policy. Interestingly the PAGD is also silent over the future course of action on the petitions which the alliance partners have filed against the abrogation of special status and J&K reorganization Act 2019 that divided the state into two union territories. PAGD leaders have to keep it in mind that not words but actions would show their political coherence in their fight against the enforcement of new laws on citizenship and property rights and extension of new central laws on subjects like property tax , new industrial investment policy and new delimitation of assembly and parliamentary constituencies without the consent and approval of the elected representatives of Jammu & Kashmir
