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| Some PDP leaders want re-elections in JK | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Jan 15: With more than a week already passed and lull over the government formation taking toll in the state, the speculations over the possibilities of Jammu and Kashmir set to witness another election are making rounds.
The statement made by former Education Minister Naeem Akhtar on Friday has hinted at party not making any progress vis-à-vis the formation of the new government- sending clear signals that the state would continue to witness the governor's rule for now. "An agenda of alliance was drafted...it has to be implemented. The common vision of PM and Mufti Sahab regarding J&K had been taken forward,'' Akhtar said.
With the uncertainties prevailing, Akhtar's such a statement is tantamount to its continuity particularly when he says the formal meeting over the issue is yet to be held between the BJP and the PDP.
Sources within the PDP reveal that there are some party leaders who are of the opinion that polls should be held once again and that the sympathy wave would turn in PDP's favour after the death of the chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed's death.' ''There are some voices who have opined for the re-elections. Though this option is yet to be taken on board and discussed thoroughly but same cannot be even out rightly rejected,'' said a party leader.
"Mufti Sahab had stature that he could absorb this. The dilemma in the PDP is that in absence of such a towering leader can we actually just go and sit in the ministerial chairs and continue with the same thing?" Naeem had said.
Sources, meanwhile divulged that the repeated statements of the PDP leadership are proving worrisome for the BJP who is eagerly waiting for the government to resume office. They said that the BJP leaders have several times contacted the PDP veterans, asking them about the status of the party meetings and the decisions taken therein.
But when not even a single PDP leader is hinting at party's move to form the government, the political pundits are sceptic over whether the PDP is thinking the election way.' ''The statements of PDP leaders made in the recent past cannot be ruled out. What we can make out of the recent remarks used by the PDP leaders is a clear indication of the party not reaching to any consensus,'' said Naseer Ahmad, a research scholar at Kashmir University here.
After assembly elections threw up a fractured verdict the PDP, which had the most seats at 28 but was well short of 44, the number needed to form government, tied up with party number 2 the BJP to form government.
A meeting between Mehbooba Mufti and Sonia Gandhi, when the Congress president visited Srinagar to offer condolences for her father's death, sparked speculation on whether Mufti would continue the alliance with the BJP. |
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