Gupkar Gang doesn’t seem to know that Kashmir politics is a bit like a game of club cricket …
First, you have got to assemble the 2 playing teams.
Then the rival captains must go onto the pitch for ceremoniously spinning a coin and only then, depending on the outcome of the toss of the coin, as we all know, the game can begin … There is a certain logical and conventional order in which the 3 steps are taken in natural sequence.
Likewise , PM Modi laid out to the Gupkar Gang of Kashmir the day before that first there must be (a) delimitation of electoral constituency areas, (b) then state elections must be held by the Election Commission and thereafter in the logical and constitutional order of sequence, (c) the emergent and elected Assembly will duly vote for and enact full statehood for J&K.
That’s how the game ought to be played.
The Gupkar Gang now wants that sensible order skewed and deranged … and to my mind, what it wants makes really neither sense, constitutionality nor cricket.
The Gang wants delimitation first, then statehood and only thereafter elections!
It’s wanting to put the cart before the donkey… or, to stick to our cricketing analogy, the Gupkar Gang wants to have the toss of the coin for the match well after match is over!
I think what the Gupkar Gang really intends telling PM Modi is this: “We want to play the match first… and no matter how it ends eventually, it shall be that Heads we win, Tails you lose”!
Sudarshan Madabushi