Swayed away by the politics of beaten tracks the PDP President and former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has once again welcomed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s outreach to Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on national day of his country. Though Prime Minister’s outreach to his Pakistani counterpart on national day of his country is a good omen for normalisation of relations between India and Pakistan but Mehbooba Mufti responsible more than anyone else for spoiling the mainstream politics in Jammu & Kashmir has lost the moral right to poke her nose in the affairs of Modi Government’s relations with Pakistan. History is witness to the fact that people in power in Delhi are less bothered about the concerns of mainstream leaders in India-Pakistan relations as they always discuss issues concerning Kashmir and other matters of foreign policy bilaterally only. Since both the previous and incumbent central governments have been from the day one opposing even the role of separatist leaders in the processes of bilateral engagements with Pakistan and as such the question of giving any role to mainstream leaders of Jammu & Kashmir in the process of bilateral engagements with Pakistan does not arise at all as the incumbent central government commanded and controlled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is opposed to any negotiation over Kashmir even with Government of Pakistan.
Leaving the core issues concerning the citizenship rights, land laws and entrepreneurial rights of the youth and talking about a much bigger issue like India-Pakistan relations shows that Mehbooba Mufti tends to create a false narrative as usual for rewriting her own political destiny without learning any lesson from her Himalayan political blunders of the past.
Better it would have been for Mehbooba to talk about one and a half year silence of her own brother Tasaduq Mufti and most trusted aide Nayeem Akhter. Mehbooba owes an explanation to the people of Jammu & Kashmir for inducting his brother Tasaduq Mufti into her erstwhile government run in alliance with BJP till July 2018 as he could not even correctly read out the oath statement at Raj Bhavan Jammu on the day of his swearing in. Mehbooba Mufti also owes an explanation over silence of her trusted aide Nayeem Akhter who has gone into an unending phase of political hibernation even after his release from several months of detention in early summer last year. The issues over which Mehbooba could have spoken are the new laws on citizenship and land rights, new industrial investment policy, imposition of property tax and several other measures taken after announcement of constitutional moves on erstwhile Jammu & Kashmir state announced by Home Minister Amit Shah in both the houses of parliament on August 5, 2019. Leaving the core issues concerning the citizenship rights, land laws and entrepreneurial rights of the youth and talking about a much bigger issue like India-Pakistan relations shows that Mehbooba Mufti tends to create a false narrative as usual for rewriting her own political destiny without learning any lesson from her Himalayan political blunders of the past.
