{"id":208707,"date":"2022-09-29T20:15:59","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T14:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=208707"},"modified":"2022-09-29T20:15:59","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T14:45:59","slug":"democracy-in-kashmir-indiras-failure-vajpayees-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/democracy-in-kashmir-indiras-failure-vajpayees-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Democracy in Kashmir: Indira\u2019s failure, Vajpayee\u2019s success"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on an article\u00a0\u201c<\/strong>Democracy in Kashmir: Indira\u2019s failure, Vajpayee\u2019s success\u201d <\/strong>published in\u00a0The Indian Express<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a029th<\/sup> September 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: GS 2 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Relevance:\u00a0<\/strong>concerns associated with Jammu and Kashmir<\/strong><\/p>\n

News: <\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Elections in Jammu and Kashmir is due for the past four years. It has been under direct administration of the Union government since Article 370 was revoked.<\/p>\n

What were changes brought by revoking Article 370?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Jammu and Kashmir was transformed from a state to the union territory by the Union Parliament.<\/p>\n

The new UT was given limited powers along the line of lines Delhi assembly.<\/p>\n

The central government made further more changes in the UT.<\/p>\n

For example, State subject certificates were replaced with domicile certificates which allowed voting and property rights to a temporary as well as long-time residents.<\/p>\n

It altered land laws and affected forest rights, allocated mining rights to industry from outside the state, removed the right to free education up to the post-graduate level.<\/p>\n

The latest changes were to revise the delimitation of electoral constituencies as ordered by the reorganisation act.<\/p>\n

However, there are still many problems with Jammu and Kashmir.<\/p>\n

What are the problems present in Jammu and Kashmir?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Voter\u2019s list:<\/strong> Jammu and Kashmir administration began to revise the voters\u2019 list after the delimitation commission submitted its report.<\/p>\n

However, in the absence of recent census 2020 it is difficult to understand how the voters\u2019 list was prepared.<\/p>\n

New laws:<\/strong> Jammu along with Kashmir has also suffered from the result of the new domicile certificates, land laws and industrial policies.<\/p>\n

Delimitation commission:<\/strong> there are also allegations that the delimitation of electoral constituency by the delimitation commission has not been fair to the Kashmiri population.<\/p>\n

Border dispute:<\/strong> J&K shares border with Pakistan and there have been wars which has disturbed the area.<\/p>\n

Insurgency:<\/strong> There has been increase in the insurgency within the Kashmir valley and targeted attack on Pundits, panchayat officials and the police still continue.<\/p>\n

Therefore, there is a need for a free and fair assembly election especially that which allows civil society observers.<\/p>\n

How past government has helped in free and fair election in Kashmir?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Atal Bihari Vajpayee government ensured free and fair elections in 2002 when the insurgency was at its height.<\/p>\n

The elections were followed by new policies of non-interference in state governance along with peace negotiations with armed groups as well as Pakistan.<\/p>\n

Vajpayee government followed by Manmohan Singh government led to a sharp fall in attacks and casualties and the restoration of a functioning government.<\/p>\n

The peace-building years of 2002-2012 also laid the foundation for India to use the UN\u2019s Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to target Pakistan-based terrorists.<\/p>\n

Therefore, there is a need to revise the current policy of the government.<\/p>\n

What can be further course of action?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

First<\/strong>, a free and fair election in 2023 can help to restore peace in J&K.<\/p>\n

Second,<\/strong> the strongest confidence-building measure would be to restore statehood prior to elections and stop the implementation of the delimitation commission\u2019s recommendations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on an article\u00a0\u201cDemocracy in Kashmir: Indira\u2019s failure, Vajpayee\u2019s success\u201d published in\u00a0The Indian Express\u00a0on\u00a029th September 2022. Syllabus: GS 2 Relevance:\u00a0concerns associated with Jammu and Kashmir News: \u00a0Elections in Jammu and Kashmir is due for the past four years. It has been under direct administration of the Union government since Article 370… Continue reading Democracy in Kashmir: Indira\u2019s failure, Vajpayee\u2019s success<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10500],"class_list":["post-208707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1702286445},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}