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| PDP all set to form coalition govt with BJP | | Delhi poll results | | Neha
Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 11: The February 10 massive defeat of the BJP at the hands of the controversial Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the Delhi Assembly elections will not impact the ongoing talks between the PDP and the BJP on government formation in J&K. Both the PDP, which has 28 MLAs, and the BJP, which has 25 MLAs, on Tuesday said that the talks on government formation between them were on and the Delhi poll verdict will have no impact on the government formation. The BJP could win only three seats, as against its 2013 tally of 32, and the AAP won all the remaining 67 seats. The Congress failed to open its account and this happened for the first time in the Delhi's electoral history.
There were elements in Kashmir who used the defeat of the BJP as an opportunity to tell the PDP that it should appreciate the Delhi poll verdict and refrain from forging an alliance with the "rightwing" BJP, but with no success. Some suggested that the PDP should form a coalition government with the Kashmir-centric parties like the NC and the Congress and some suggested that the PDP should go for fresh elections. However, the motivated suggestion didn't find favour with the PDP. Rejecting the suggestion, spokesperson of the PDP Nayeem Akhtar said, "Jammu & Kashmir is not Delhi" and J&K needed a government that enjoyed the support of the Central government. "What applies to one state doesn't apply to another state. The political situation and polity of one place doesn't resemble that of J&K. We have a different political situation than Delhi," he was quoted as saying. "It is a multi-dimensional situation -- one is that whatever we need to do, the Central Government needs to be on board, second it is the nature of the electoral verdict and nature of the polity here that doesn't apply elsewhere," Akhtar also said.
Ever since December 23, when the election results were announced in J&K and the people of the state gave a fractured mandate, the PDP had been maintaining that an alliance with the BJP was the only best option available and that forging an alliance with the NC or the Congress would mean negation of the 2014 mandate. Both the NC, which has 15 MLAS, and the Congress, which has 12 MLAs, had offered unconditional support to the PDP to ensure that the BJP was kept out of the government, but the PDP didn't accept the offer for obvious reasons.
The view of the PDP that J&K is not Delhi cannot be ignored. Delhi is just one capital city like Mumbai or Chennai or Kolkata or Jammu or Srinagar. J&K is a very vast state with bulk of its geographical area highly difficult and even inaccessible. It consists of three distinct geographical regions of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh. The aspirations of the people of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh are almost mutually exclusive. In the last assembly elections, for example, the people of Jammu province voted overwhelmingly for the BJP and in Ladakh, for the Congress. The BJP won 25 out of 37 seats in Jammu and the Congress three out of four from Ladakh. The Congress won five seats and the PDP and the NC three seats each. One seat was captured by an independent candidate, who, like the PDP MLAs, voted for the BJP candidate in the just-held Rajya Sabha elections in J&K. In Kashmir Valley, a vast majority of population there exercised its franchise in favour of the PDP and relegated the NC and the Congress to second and third position. While the PDP won 25 out of 46 seats in the Valley, the then ruling NC and the Congress could win only 12 and 4 seats, respectively. In other words, the people of the Valley voted against the ruling coalition and expressed their faith in the main opposition PDP.
The PDP spokesperson only appreciated the ground realities as they exist in J&K by saying that "J&K is not Delhi". J&K is a very difficult state to be managed and governed. It needs a government that caters to the needs of all the people inhabiting its three distinct regions. It can't afford a government that is one-region-centric. |
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