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The regions history remains buried today under its hollow structure
Zaina Kadal, the heart of old city Srinagar, was once popular for politics as Mujahid Manzil was located here. The Manzil was considered a “shrine of resistance politics” against Dogra regime, and which was later on taken over by National Conference. Once being a hub for political activities fighting against Dogra’s, Mujahid Manzil was a focal point as people from all walks of life in Jammu and Kashmir would visit the place to meet political leaders like Sheikh Mohamamd Abdullah, Maulana Masoodi, Chowdhary Ghulam Abbas and others to get glimpses of Kashmir s topmost leaders and first hand information of regional politics.
Yawar Hussain
explains the spectacle in wake of historic realties
A cartoon by Kashmir’s legendary cartoonist BAB saying the PADG would fight for 370, then will fight elections and will eventually fight within.
With Kashmir’s traditional rivals in politics joining hands post 5/8 to form Peoples’ Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD), the fault lines separating their turfs refuse to dissipate despite the leadership bonhomie. Throughout the post-partition history, the rivals have fed their followers with so much hate against each other that now political identities at ground zero defy the leadership.
There is a groundswell of support in PAGD’s favour but it is so wavering in certain areas that it can upset the calculations of top Kashmir parties. PAGD leaders admit they had not envisioned it. There are rebellions within the parties. At countless places, a PAGD candidate is in the contest against proxy candidates of the PAGD constituents.