Today PDP President Mehbooba Mufti says that Manan Wani’s death is entirely “our loss” but while in power she did not dare to mouth such words to tribute Burhan Wani the top militant commander of Hizb Ul Mujahideen in June 2016 and a Kashmir University lecturer Mohammad Rafi Bhat in May this year. Playing politics over the bodies of young intellectuals can’t restore the grass root connections of Mehbooba Mufti and her party PDP with the youth in Kashmir. True it is that our hearts bleed every day to see people taking the bodies of youth into the graves but central government commanded and controlled by BJP a party which shared power with Mehbooba Mufti’s PDP in Jammu & Kashmir for three long year never and never agreed to the demands for dialogue and implementation of peace initiatives in Kashmir and instead Prime Miniter Narendra Modi in full public glare in November 2015 asked the then Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed not to deliver the lessons on dialogue with Pakistan and Confidence Building Measures (CBMs’) to him (Narendra Modi). Had Prime Minister Modi responded to any Chief Minister of any other state of the country over any demand with such contemptuous words the alliance would have ended then and there only. Ironically after the demise of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed the alliance with BJP was restored after three months of dilly delaying tactics only to choose power over political sentiment of the people of Kashmir. Mehbooba government did not ever bother to mouth few words of sympathy for those whose teenage children were killed in clashes with government forces during 2016 unrest and instead Mehbooba as Chief Minister hurted and humiliated the bleeding hearts as she told a press conference in presence of Home Minister Rajnath Singh “Do the children pelting stones on police stations and army camps go to markets to buy toffee and milk”.
Mehbooba Mufti has to take more questions than the Modi government at the centre for creating a mess that she created in alliance with BJP during last three years of misrule in the state
Had Mehbooba Mufti mustered the courage to reach out to the people at grass roots in an attempt to dig out the cause of increasing anger among youth in Kashmir the situation won’t have forced Kashmir University lecturer Mohammad Rafi Bhat and Scholar Manan Wani to move out from the campuses of the universities to pick the gun and join a war against a government that was run in alliance with BJP a party which in connivance with its hard core affiliates was laying legal traps against hereditary state subject law and article 370 of Indian constitution guaranteeing special status to the people of Jammu & Kashmir. So Mehbooba Mufti owes too many explanations to the people over her government’s failure in establishing political bonding with the youth. Mehbooba choose power over the political bonding of her party with the youth in Kashmir and her tributes to Manan Wani won’t open doors of connectivity with the youth for her party PDP in the present hostile political and security atmosphere in the state. Mehbooba Mufti has to take more questions than the Modi government at the centre for creating a mess that she created in alliance with BJP during last three years of misrule in the state.
