A Different Kind of Reservation in Baramulla
Those who might turn dissident have already ensured that the party threw its weight behind Safina Beigh for the Baramulla district Council chair.
Her husband, former Deputy Chief Minister Muzaffar Beigh, had apparently been promised this from the Centre. The administration went through various convolutions to ensure that the Baramulla Council chair was reserved for a woman.
PDP Has Shifted Its Agenda
Nominally, Beigh has been a member of the PDP, the second largest party in the PAGD Alliance. The Alliance came together to fight the DDC elections in November-December, but could not energise a united push.
The PDP’s line appeared to shift from the Gupkar Declaration when party President Mehbooba Mufti returned to projecting J&K as a bridge between India and Pakistan at the function at which she was re-elected party president on Sunday.
This is the line Mehbooba’s father, Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, had adopted when he was chief minister, and…
