The exit of the J&K Peoples Movement (JKPM) has reduced the People’s Alliance for the Gupkar Declaration (PAGD), an amalgam of parties fighting for the restoration of the pre-August 5, 2019 position of Jammu and Kashmir, to a four-party grouping.
However, with the National Conference (NC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) formalising an electoral alliance for the first ever Assembly polls in the Union Territory (UT), it will be a formidable political force to take on the BJP.
JKPM president Ghulam Mustafa quit the Gupkar alliance on Sunday. “The alliance is a mere electoral alliance of two traditional political parties to safeguard their political interests. It doesn’t have any road map or any clear cut plans to lead people out of uncertainties,” a JKPM spokesman said.
