The Hindu Editorial Vocabulary 21st August 2024

The Hindu Editorial Vocabulary 21st August 2024

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Hindu Editorial Vocab On the announcement of elections in Jammu and Kashmir

With the Election Commission of India (ECI) announcing the dates for elections in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) — in three phases between September 18 and October 1 — a major lacuna in the conduct of democracy in the province has been addressed. The absence of an elected and functioning State legislature (the group of people in a country or part of a country who have the power to make and change laws), along with the abrogation (the act of formally ending a law, agreement, or custom) of special status and the bifurcation (the fact that something is divided into two parts or the act of dividing something into two parts) of the erstwhile State, followed by J&K’s diminution (reduction in size or importance) ( into a Union Territory (UT) had resulted in significant despair (the feeling that there is no hope and that you can do nothing to improve a difficult or worrying situation) and alienation among the people. The absence of a legislature (the group of people in a country or part of a country who have the power to make and change laws) to express concerns and the muzzling of dissent by arresting students, journalists, lawyers among other civil society representatives under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and the Public Safety Act have been recipes for furthering the alienation. In its judgment that upheld the abrogation of special status — a flawed one — the Supreme Court had also ordered that elections to the Legislative Assembly had to be held by September 30, 2024, besides expressing its opinion on the need to restore statehood as soon as possible. The ECI has done well to heed the first directive. The absence of an elected legislature has meant that the people have lacked a voice to articulate their concerns even as they have yearned for their rights of electoral participation. This is evident in the participation levels in the local body and parliamentary elections since 2019 — the numbers were much higher than in earlier elections, especially in the Valley.

In the last-held Assembly elections nearly a decade ago, the mandate was split on communal (belonging to or used by a group of people rather than one single person) lines with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) winning nearly all of the seats that it contested in Jammu, and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the National Conference (NC) and the Congress winning most of the seats in the Valley. Much water has flowed down the Jhelum after the formation of the coalition (the joining together of different political parties or groups for a particular purpose, usually for a limited time, or a government that is formed in this way) government between the PDP and the BJP, an unnatural (not natural) alliance that was doomed to fail. The NC and Congress had fought the 2024 general election as part of the INDIA bloc and there is the likelihood of an alliance between these parties and smaller ones in these elections. The need for like-minded parties, that agree on changing the status quo in the UT by bringing back statehood and promoting secular governance, to come together, is promising not only for electoral tactical purposes. It is an imperative in order to ensure that the discourse in the province (one of the areas that a country or empire is divided into as part of the organization of its government, which often has some control over its own laws), which has been beset with fresh waves of terrorism in Jammu and south Kashmir, is not communalised (the state or quality of being communal (= sharing things and having shared interests and hopes). An election that is contested on civic issues and rights discourses, rather than on communal lines, would help bring back peace to India’s northernmost province.

Hindu Vocab Wordlist 21st August 2024

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Legislature: the group of people in a country or part of a country who have the power to make and change laws

Abrogation: the act of formally ending a law, agreement, or custom

Bifurcation: The fact that something is divided into two parts or the act of dividing something into two parts

Diminution: reduction in size or importance

Despair: The feeling that there is no hope and that you can do nothing to improve a difficult or worrying situation

Communal: Belonging to or used by a group of people rather than one single person

Coalition: The joining together of different political parties or groups for a particular purpose, usually for a limited time, or a government that is formed in this way

Unnatural: not natural

Province: One of the areas that a country or empire is divided into as part of the organization of its government, which often has some control over its own laws

Communalised:

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