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PDP forces BJP to play second fiddle 4/13/2015 12:11:43 AM Early Times Report Jammu, Apr 12: The PDP has forced the BJP to play the role of second fiddle in the government. The state unit of the BJP was forced to accept the proposal of the Mufti Mohammad Sayeed to elect Congress MLC Jehangir Mir as the deputy chairman of the legislative Council, which has itself been described by the deputy chief minister Nirmal Singh as a historic event. It will probably be for the first time in the Indian political history that BJP has elected a Congress legislator to an important constitutional post. The BJP owes its existence and emergence to anti-Congress programme and sentiment. "It was unthinkable even a month ago that BJP would support and elect a Congress legislator. The central leadership of the party it seems is so keen to do everything that Mufti proposes that it has shed its ideology completely. It could have serious repercussions," said a senior BJP leader, wishing not to be named. The CM Mufti Mohammad Sayeed has his political mooring in the Congress and by giving the seat of the deputy chairman of the Council, he has kept the door open for the party for future prospective alliance. "The CM is playing his cards carefully. The BJP is either accepting them or just going defensive. The party is assuming that it could bring about the change in long term. But, by that time Mufti could have placed his political cards in a manner that BJP will be left with no option but to go empty handed before the people and Congress will then make a kill," said the BJP leader, wishing not to quoted. "Even if the Central leadership of the party was insisting on it, then at least the Dy CM should have avoided saying that it is an historical moment. He should have said party has to go by the coalition compulsion and these are inherent in the coalition. It should have sent the message about the discomfort of the party. But, he also didn't say it," said the leader.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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