Usually, the name of the party and its agenda would, initially, determine its acceptance, and penetration and would also be decisive in roping in more and more people with political identity, but what happened soon after Azad divorced Congress was that people with their political presence, who held Azad in high esteem, came together and ended up making a party without a name; which suggests that people who joined Azad without even having a party, without discussing the agenda, were not driven by any ideology—they did not stand for a cause and neither did they play a role of effective leaders in J&K—but at the back of it, there was a face, a name, which turned to be enough for them to change sides and gather relevance on the barren political landscape of the UT. Rest there is total bareness.
The same hollowness is depicted in the name of the Azad-led DAP. It sans the political appeal, points more to the domination of one particular person, even if Azad denies that, and at the same time underlines that lack of understanding of the basic political nitty-gritty. The party is going to be a pure dominance show and the book by which it is going to be run will be the understanding and the choices of Ghulam Nabi Azad. He has put in that ingredient now.
What is going to be the future of the party that hasn’t got any solid vision; has a name that smells one-man dominance? They are going to take up the issues of road, water, and electricity; making the core issues non-existent, but will those issues continue forever? What will happen to Azad-led DAP when these issues are fulfilled? It could go back to its core agenda, but it has got none. In politics, one has to lock horns with the big bull and even if the weaker side is thrown out of the arena, it gets what it has been aiming for: public acceptance. However, what seems to be the case with Azad’s DAP, apart from the name that lacks political messaging, it will never lock horns with the bull.
