Irfan Gull
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People's politics | @YNCJK | Views here reflect my POV, not necessarily of the organisation I work with.
PDP’s Land Protection Bill was blocked by NC Govt: Mehbooba Mufti greaterkashmir.com/politics/pdps-…
Every few years, NC lectures someone or the other about who “opened the doors” to Delhi or the BJP. Today, let's revisit the single most consequential political compromise in post-1953 J&K history: The 1975 Indira–Sheikh Accord🧵👇🏻
"Strange that JK CM is casually brushing off an order issued by his own department ‘seeking’ public feedback on the sinister decision to remove Urdu as a mandatory requirement for Revenue Services. Don’t you know the cultural & historical significance of Urdu? How are you even comfortable ‘seeking’ feedback despite knowing the overwhelming sentiment? Hon’ble CM doesn’t the very act of ‘seeking’ opinion state your intention to initiate the process of striking off Urdu? We won’t let you erase our history. I don’t need tuitions, I’d much rather you use the same energy on cancelling these shambolic ‘opinion poll’ orders to annihilate Urdu": @IltijaMufti_
.@OmarAbdullah’s approach represents an attempt to re-politicise governance, reintroducing questions that incrementalism tends to suppress. This is not confrontation for its own sake; it is advocacy for citizens whose rights have been curtailed. I write. greaterkashmir.com/opinion/struct…
Archives | We then came to the matter of the PDP’s origins. I asked Hassan Mir if the party was the creation of the centre. “Maybe the intelligence agencies supported Mufti but it was not known to anybody down below,” he said, not confirming that rumour, yet betraying no surprise whatsoever at the speculated scenario. “No intelligence agent ever told me to do anything, though I have always been close with the centre. Maybe Mufti got some facilitation from them, but not to my knowledge.” At the end of September, I met Liaqat Ali Khan, a 46-year-old former commander of the Ikhwan, the counter-insurgency group, at his house in a high-security colony for police officers in the town of Khanabal, near Anantnag. In 1998, the year before the PDP was formed, Khan and other fellow Ikhwanis had joined the BJP. (He has since quit the party.) He told me about a meeting he had with LK Advani around that time. Khan and the others had been reining in militants since 1994, and now they wanted to retire as politicians. For this, they sought Advani’s support. Sayeed’s name cropped up in his conversation with Advani. “When we went to meet Advani in Delhi, he asked us ‘What is Mufti all about?’” Khan told me, remembering that he responded, “Mufti is with the militants.” Khan assumed that knowledge of Sayeed’s links with militant groups would dissuade the BJP from supporting him. But he now believes that he read the conversation wrong, and that the BJP was interested in Sayeed precisely because of those connections. Khan told me he didn’t realise “that we had seconded what Mufti had already sold them. We should have been smarter. Mufti had told the BJP and the RSS that he will get the Hizbul, Hurriyat and other separatists to the table.” Khan said he didn’t receive support from the BJP, while the party threw its weight behind Sayeed. “Ajit Doval was the joint director of IB here at that time,” Khan said. “We were young when these things happened. We didn’t understand the game plan. All the government of India agencies, and all the assets they had, be it RAW, the IB and others, got a directive to support the new party.” This support continued into the 2002 elections, he said. By his account, the army was roped in to gather information that could help the party’s candidates. “The army did an exercise and they asked all the company commanders for feedback from the village level,” Khan said. “They had recommended the issues that should be raised in the elections for getting support.” Read the profile of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed by Praveen Donthi: caravanmagazine.in/reportage/the-…
Another illegal detention of opposition leader quashed by court. The J&K High Court quashes the detention order of J&K AAP MLA Mehraj Malik, who was booked under the Public Safety Act in 2025. He had to spend 8 months in jail for no crime.
Statehood Will Come At Appropriate Time, Not Because “Shehzada” Omar Is CM: Sunil Sharma
