Ghulam Nabi Azad has not announced the party but has declared the agenda of his party and it has become clear that what will be his election strategy? They will do politics only by taking hard line. Just as other regional parties of Kashmir Valley like National Conference, PDP, Apni Party etc. are doing politics in the same way Azad’s party will also do politics. Though there is a perception that they are BJP’s B team and forming a political party to benefit the BJP, but their agenda will be hard line party only then they will be able to get votes in Kashmir Valley. If they keep BJP’s agenda too, they will get votes neither in Jammu nor in the Valley. They have to show with their agenda and campaign that they are not BJP’s B team, but are fighting BJP as well.
That’s when he told three agendas of the party in his rally before announcing the party. Azad told that he will work to restore the statehood of Jammu and Kashmir. This is not an agenda as the government has said that it will restore statehood. Jammu and Kashmir is not going to be a union territory till eternity. The only question is whether statehood will be restored before the assembly elections or will it happen after that. But the next two agendas are hard-line. He said that his party will ensure that only people of Jammu and Kashmir get jobs in the state and only local people can buy land. That is, outsiders can neither buy land nor do jobs. This is the agenda of parties like PDP, National Conference. But this will not happen because then the purpose of abolishing Article 370 and 35A will not be fulfilled. Azad also knows this, yet he will do politics on these issues to claim himself as the messiah of the Muslims of the valley. They know that only then they will get votes and they will be able to fulfill the purpose of BJP to some extent.
