National Conference President Farooq Abdullah saying that Jammu & Kashmir has separate issues even in the delimitation of the Jammu & Kashmir assembly constituencies obviously shows that National Conference tends to instigate polarisation on religious and regional lines with greater intensity than even the BJP the party ruling at the centre. In fact it is the mainstream leadership which has sown the seeds of regional and religious polarisation in Jammu & Kashmir during 2008 armarnath land row agitation in both Kashmir and Jammu regions. While the onus for the eruption of 2008 Amarnath land row agitation for all practical purposes lies on PDP and Congress the parties who were sharing power in Jammu & Kashmir in 2008, the National Conference and BJP did the job of fueling disintegrating tendencies on regional and religious lines during the 2008 amarnath land row agitation in Jammu & Kashmir . Harping regional and religious polarisation National Conference returned to power and the BJP increased it’s numerical strength in 2008 assembly elections in the erstwhile J&K assembly. Calling population the sole criteria for delimitation Kashmir and pitching for delimitation of Jammu region on the basis of area is clearly an attempt of National Conference President to bring people of Kashmir and Jammu on confrontation mode obviously for the purposes of creating a polarising political atmosphere similar to one witnessed during 2008 Amarnath land row agitation in Jammu & Kashmir. Interestingly the beneficiaries of the highly polarised election atmosphere of 2008 assembly elections were National Conference and BJP. Under the garb of equitable empowerment the majority can’t be changed into minority and minority into majority at the whims and wishes of National Conference and BJP but equitable empowerment by all standards of administrative and institutional understandabilities has to be proportionate to population but not the area as this is the universal principle for equitable empowerment even in greatest democracies of world. Dividing people and fuelling disintegrating tendencies would finally further spoil the process of regional bonding and religious harmony in Jammu & Kashmir and such an approach would only divide Jammu & Kashmir into more splinter parts and burry forever the purpose of the reunion of all the three regions of erstwhile Jammu & Kashmir state as proposed and promised by Peoples Alliance For Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) of which National Conference and PDP are the major allies.
Delimitation is a tedious and complex process as admitted by J&K delimitation commission itself at a presser in Jammu at the end of it’s four day long engagement over proposed delimitation in Jammu & Kashmir and care has to be taken that the legislative empowerment of majority is not subverted at the expense of the political agenda of any particular political party. Farooq Abdullah has committed himalyan political blunders in 1987 and 1996 assembly elections and situation demands that central government does not allow Farooq Abdullah to lay his own political trap for the delimitation commission for his own power and pelf at the expense of the empowerment people of all regions and faiths. What mattes the most is the fact that electoral boundaries were redrawn, without affecting the number of seats, in 2002 under a delimitation commission just to avoid political and social conflicts to arise across states throughout the country.
National Conference and PDP divided on participation and non participation in the delimitation process have no moral right to deliver sermons on struggle for return of pre August 5, 2019 position as they have made the beginning for a new political order with never ending political animosity. When National Conference and PDP are pulling in different directions on no less key issue than the delimitation process, neither of the two parties have the moral right to oppose the universal principle of population the basis for delimitation which also is the basis for legislative and administrative empowerment of the people of all regions and faiths even in the greatest democracies of the world. Farooq Abdullah, his political contemporaries and followers have to keep in mind the fact that not the political agenda of any political party but only population has to be the sole criteria for delimitation for the purposes of equitable empowerment of people of all the regions, faiths and areas of Jammu & Kashmir. Otherwise if area has to be the criteria for delimitation, then the central government has increase no of Lok Sabha seats for Rajisthan the biggest state of country as per area and reduce the no of Lok Sabha seats for Utter Pradesh the most populous state of the country . Question can be asked should no of Lok Sabha seats be reduced in case of Utter Pradesh in propotion to it’s area and increased for Rajasthan the biggest state as per area in proportion to it’s area. Delimitation is a tedious and complex process as admitted by J&K delimitation commission itself at a presser in Jammu at the end of it’s four day long engagement over proposed delimitation in Jammu & Kashmir and care has to be taken that the legislative empowerment of majority is not subverted at the expense of the political agenda of any particular political party. Farooq Abdullah has committed himalyan political blunders in 1987 and 1996 assembly elections and situation demands that central government does not allow Farooq Abdullah to lay his own political trap for the delimitation commission for his own power and pelf at the expense of the empowerment people of all regions and faiths. What mattes the most is the fact that electoral boundaries were redrawn, without affecting the number of seats, in 2002 under a delimitation commission just to avoid political and social conflicts to arise across states throughout the country.
