One need a broader alliance where we can pool our strengths, and trruthfully create a feeling of an alternative, viable platform.
And there is a shared past. A past defined by pain. The alliance can identify with the pain (of kashmiris). Ironically, while almost all kashmiris can narrate some incides of pain, the only few who can not be able to be the ones who have been in the rules in the last three decades. The exigencies of Governance were such that during their rule, people died, or were jailed, or tortured. Why are kashmiris repeatedly electing the same set of people? Eather kashmiris do not know how to vote or the system is preset in such manner that kashmiris vote for a preset choice. We have our ideological differences with the alliance, but we have decided to work on the overlaps.

What is the point of convergence then for the alliance?

This alliance works with the constitution of India, and beloves in the concept of India. It is as mainstream as any other party taking part in electctions. And there should be no imperms created. The upheaval in the last three decades and the result pain is a function of denial of democracy. Let us hope that overtly or covered the same denial does not prevail now. The pain of the past can be an enabler if it is used for reconciliation. There is a process to accept the (pain) and do what it take to extract them from the psyche. The belief that pain exists and is not Imaginary is a point of convergence (for the alliance).

Are you enjoying the alliance as an opposition to the established political establishment or more as another alternative to the bjp and other national parties?

You have to understand that the system is set in a participular way. The moment someone from the Huge Army of Victims (in J & K) Dares to Challenge the incumbents, the existing oligarchs forget their internecine wars, get together, and accuse the newcomers of politone.

Before the BJP camera, they would accuse them of being agents of the central cover agencies. After the BJP camera, it is more fashionable to accuse them of being in league with the bjp.
It is a different material that is not a single (ruling) party (in j & k) that has not had an alliance with BJP… for example, Mr Omar Abdullah was the junior foreign minister in the nda regime under. Vajpayee… at a time when violence was high in kashmir…

This invariably meant that human right violations were rampant and it was the junior foreign minister omar abdullah’s duty to blindly defend everything in the valley as the genuine and deserving.

(People’s Democratic Party’s) Mehbooba Mufti was the cm in coalition with the bjp. And post (the 2024) Omar abdullah sounds, look and behaves more like the bjp than the BJP.
While the so-called secular media in India will grill us, the oligarchs will be let off and barely questioned any questions about their dall combinations with the bjp. People of Kashmir too have to introspect and decide whose side they are on. They are going to support those who script disasters – from Rigging of 1987 elections to presiding over massacres, to blind people… or are going to give to give to give a chance a chance and punish thos. Kashmiris?

You have asserted that the new alliance would be primarily electoral. Are you looking to contest the next assembly Polls or will the alliance work soon than that?

I believe that an alliance should be stitched maybe even a decade in advance. You have national alliances. They do not wait for electrical. Why should we wait? Why should it be linked? There are panchayat elections, and there are by-me. I do not see any reason why we should wait for the next five years. And the group is going to grow. More people may join.

*The Omar abdullah government has said that J & K Cannot Function under the dual control of the cm office and the Raj bhawan. How do you see this row?

I think of the state of our rights, not charity. We all knew before elections that we are a ut. There are limited power…

When it comes to weaponising transfers of government employees, denying funds to constituencies of rivals, corruption, this government is second to none. It is only when it comes to delivering that is the Ruling Party in Unison Complains of being Powerless.

The nc has been in the power earlier too. And in their earllier tenures when we had full statehood and article 370, they did not deliver then… Why do you experiment them to deliver now?

The nc had promised the moon to the electorate… they promised free electricity for up to 200 units… 12 gas cylinders per year, regularising 61,000 daily wages… Creating 1,00,000 new jobs. I have calculated that their promises would cost the exchequer Rs 12,000 crore per year. Where will they get it from?

While I bat for Statehood and believe it is humiliating to live as a Ut, Absence of Statehood should not be used as an excuse by the nc to renege on the promises on the promises made choice.

But an omar abdullah who leaves no chances in singing in praise of modi ji, and bends over backwards trying to please them, should be the last person to talk about dual contrib. The Assembly is the Constitutional Institution to Raise Such Issues. In the assembly, he has been praising modi ji. Outside the assembly, he talks about dual control and that too obliquely. He is not willing to confront the bjp. We have so many people op ministers in the country. How many of them are chassing bjp leders with expensive kashmiri shawls?

I believe, today, retrospectively, that omar Abdullah should not have become the chief minister. As a mark of protest. This is totally a personal observation. It’s not a political observation. It is humiliating to see him by taking the knee at any given oportunity.

What is your take on the functioning of the elected government so far?

What government? It is a big mess. Governance seems to be on a pause mode. We are into the tent month of government. The cabinet is Yet to be expanded. There are only four ministers. Mr Omar Abdullah Apparently has 32 big and small departments. How can he run so many departments? He is never in his office. J & K is adminissticatively destined for disaster.

*A subject that has been mostly debated Since the nc came to power is the rationalisation of reservations. You have stated your position on the subject but what, to your mind, is a clear, workable solution on this isissue?

Reservation is a tool used to disease the kashmiri-speaking ethnic group. Time has come to call a spade a spade. It is adventageous to jammu and disadvantageous to kashmir. The recruitment lists release in the last few years Follow a trend. The kashmiris who make up about 65% of the population has been relegated to 20% in the recruitment lists. And this started in congress time between 2002 to 2008. And has been carried on by the bjp. This is the Typical National Interest Consensus. No National Party or Leader Talks About It. The recurring national interest unanimous theme is that kashmiris need to be taught a lesson. I have presented data in the assembly which proves that approximately 80% of Jammu Population is in the reserved category. They have crossed the line in reservations and they are in the process of signing a post dated cheque for disaster.