Qaiser Rashid
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Yes. Absolutely, will join the sit-in. I stood with the students then and will stand with them till justice is done. However long it takes. This is an issue above and beyond politics.









Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has been presiding over meetings, visiting places, addressing gatherings, issuing instructions and making inaugurations. However, honestly, the fact of the matter is that the National Conference Government in Jammu & Kashmir has not been able to fulfill a single of the promises it made to its voters in the election manifesto in the Lok Sabha and the Assembly elections of 2024. It has not been able to honour its commitments and announcements made before and after the formation of the Government on 16 October 2024. Nothing has been achieved on the promises of restoration of public holiday on the Martyrs Day (13 July), Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah's birthday (5 December), restoration of autonomy to SKIMS et al, let alone the restoration of Statehood. Consequently, a perceptible massive wave of resentment and disappointment is crystallizing among the masses not only against the UT's ruling party but also against the whole idea of bringing about changes in the system and governance through democratic processes of massive participation. As of now, the NC's only advantage lies in the fact that its loss is not becoming the gain of any other political party or the separatists who ran a parallel State, a State into State, in J&K from January 1990 to February 2019. A section of the people have started saying and believing that "some guys" in the ruling establishment are "taking their personal benefits and making their own things done" but telling the commoners that they were "powerless and helpless" till the restoration of the Statehood. Given this state of affairs, current speculations of "cabinet expansion" are nothing but a social media rubbish. Normally nobody wants to resign from a position of power, howsoever hollow and ornamental, but witnessing an undercurrent of resentment and disappointment, I am sure that the NC leadership can afford to exist in such a state for a maximum of ONE YEAR. So don't be surprised if they quit and create a mainstream political vacuum by the month of January 2026, much like the one they did over Mufti Mohammad Sayeed's ego of appointing Jagmohan as the Governor of Jammu & Kashmir in January 1990.














