Political dilemma
The National Conference is currently in political dilemma as the party has yet to decide whether to go for street struggle for the restoration of article 370 or only move to the Supreme Court as the party feels that the decisions taken by the parliament on August 5, 2019 cannot stand the court of law.
While one of its leaders and former minister recently said that all the writ petitions should be withdrawn from Supreme Court challenging the abrogation of article 370 and said that after the Babri verdict by the court there is little scope for the people of Jammu and Kashmir to get justice for this purpose.
Although the National Conference said that these were his personal views, party insiders said that very soon a collective decision would be taken by all the parties and stakeholders of how to move with their struggle for the restoration of article 370.
PDP insiders told some sections of the media that their detained party chief and former chief minister is already advocating “a full blooded political struggle in all the areas of Jammu and Kashmir to pose a political challenge to the BJP government rather than moving to court only”.
Mehbooba Mufti is keenly watching how the Supreme Court is going to decide about her continued detention as it has been challenged by her daughter and the court recently told the government how long they are going to keep her under detention.
National Conference on the other hand has been very confident that they have a strong case before the Supreme Court for the restoration of special status as they feel that whatever the central government did on August 5, 2019, is unconstitutional and it will not stand before the court.
