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Mufti opposed to snapping ties with BJP

11/12/2015 11:37:33 PM

The PDP leadership is under pressure rom some senior dissident party leaders who continue to suggest that the PDP should snap ties with the BJP. This demand of the dissidents has gained ground soon after the BJP lost the Bihar Assembly election. Though Tariq Hameed Karra, Member Parliament from Srinagar Constituency, has come out openly against the party leadership's plan to keep the alliance with the BJP in tact there are over half a dozen senior and junior leaders in the PDP who want the ties with the BJP to be snapped in order to ensure survival of the party in the future elections. These dissidents want the ties with the BJP to be snapped so that the PDP is able to improve its performance in any Assembly election which may be held somewhere in 2020. In the 2014 election the PDP had won 28 seats, 25 from the valley of Kashmir and three from the region of Jammu. These dissidents feel that by the time the next Assembly poll is announced the PDP may get decimated in case the next election was held during the time the PDP and the BJP coalition Government completed its six-year term. But reports indicate that the PDP leadership is averse to the idea of the dissidents favouring snapping of ties with the BJP. Senior PDP leaders, known for their loyalty to Mufti Sayeed, are of the view that the Chief Minister had forged an alliance with the BJP simply to secure better financial package from the BJP led NDA Government which could help Jammu and Kashmir to improve its economy and put back on rails the wheel of development which had got stuck partly owing to Pakistan sponsored insurgency and partly because of the wrong planning of the previous NC-Congress coalition Government. Mufti Sayeed, according to these leaders, believed that the state needed to have strong road connectivity, stronger health and education sector and a strong base for industrial investment which could resolve the problem of unemployment. The Chief Minister had opted for alliance with the party in power in the Centre simply to secure other benefits in the shape of sanction for raising five to 10 additional police battalions which too could help a section of the educated youth to get gainful employment. Above all Mufti Mohd. Sayeed had believed that by joining hands with the BJP, which had won 25 seats from the region of Jammu, would help him in resolving the problem of regional discrimination. That is something else if during the last eight months the PDP-BJP coalition Government has not been able to end regional discrimination. Possibly the fault lies more with the BJP which had failed to assert its authority. Well whatever may be the reason the BJP led NDA Government is equally not in favour of snapping ties with the PDP. An indication to this effect was given by the Union Home Minister, Rajnath Singh. Rajnath Singh has said there is no threat to PDP-BJP coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir and the alliance will continue. "The coalition Government in Jammu and Kashmir will continue," Rajnath has stated. Referring to reports whether differences have crept in the ruling PDP- BJP alliance in Jammu and Kashmir. Rajnath Singh said there are no major differences in the alliance in Jammu and Kashmir and the coalition will continue. On protests during the recent visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Jammu and Kashmir, he said such incidents had taken place in the past too. "But you should remember that only a handful people were there in protests," he said. Singh has claimed that the law-and-order situation in Jammu and Kashmir has improved to a great extent since the formation of the BJP led NDA Government in the Centre. It has further improved under the PDP-BJP rule. Mufti Mohd. Sayeed is a shrewd politician and he may not be in favour of parting company with the BJP and hence any provocation from the opposition parties is unlikely to change his mind because he is keen to ensure all round development of the state which was possible if he gets for the state Central financial support for the plan and the no-plan sector.

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