While mainstream political events in Kashmir have strongly opposed the Delimitation Commission’s closing order, what’s curious is the response — or the shortage of it — of the management of J&K’s largest mainstream political celebration, the Farooq Abdullah-led National Conference (NC).
While the celebration issued a press release on the Commission’s order, many noticed it as being too gentle. “The whole train has been blind to the universally accepted and practiced standards and ideas almost about electoral illustration. However no quantity of gerrymandering will save the BJP, and its proxies from the wrath of individuals,” the celebration mentioned in a press release, including that it might examine its implications on the constituency stage earlier than making closing its response.
The NC’s political rivals say finding out minor implications of the Commission’s order is ineffective when the train has “disempowered and disenfranchised the Muslims of Kashmir”.
But it is the silence of the highest management, together with president Farooq Abdullah and vice chairman Omar Abdullah, that has led to a lot hypothesis. On Saturday, Farooq Abdullah, whereas talking to reporters, refused to react to the order whereas saying the celebration has made its stand clear. On the backfoot, later within the day, the celebration issued a press release saying that Sr Abdullah has “reiterated the party’s stand on the Delimitation Commission”.
In distinction, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti hit out on the Commission, accusing it of furthering the BJP’s agenda of “disempowering people of a particular community and region”.
“The Government of India has as soon as once more trampled upon the Constitution of the nation by turning an electoral majority right into a minority. The actual design of the delimitation train is the demographic change in Jammu and Kashmir,” Mufti mentioned.
Other events, too, reacted sharply. The Congress mentioned the Commission has “increased injustice and widened the gap of discrimination on various fronts” whereas the People’s Conference known as it a “repeat of the past” discrimination in opposition to Kashmir.
Hitting out on the NC over its muted response, a political chief from a rival celebration, who spoke on situation of anonymity, mentioned, “They say we will study it at the constituency level. That is not the issue. The bigger issue is that the Muslims of Kashmir have been permanently disempowered and disenfranchised. In any case, the Delimitation Commission’s order has ensured that the leadership at the constituency level will be decimated. They want no credible voice to remain in Kashmir.”
The NC’s stand has led to murmurs throughout the celebration too.
A senior chief, nonetheless, mentioned he would give the management the good thing about the doubt and that the silence could possibly be tactical. “I am not sure why there is silence. But it could well be that the party knows the award of the Delimitation Commission can’t be reversed. So there is little benefit in making an issue out of it. It could only invite more wrath from the Center in the form of ED and other agencies.”
The NC, nonetheless, dismissed the criticism that the celebration management was gentle on the Commission order. “We made a strong case when we gave our recommendations to the Commission. Why do we need to repeat everything all the time,” celebration celebration Tanvir Sadiq instructed The Indian Express.
Sadiq mentioned the celebration could provide you with an in depth response after finding out the order intimately. “We have said we will study it at the level of the constituency. It has been sent to all heads of the party at the district level. They will study the implications and then we may announce something. In any case, we have said that we don’t accept it. We have already challenged the Reorganization Act in the Supreme Court and I think we have a strong case there”.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
