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Early Times Report
jammu, Jan 15: Even after nine days of Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed's demise, the PDP and its former ally, the BJP, have failed to iron out their differences. As a result, there is no popularly-elected Government in place in the State. And if the developments which have unfolded in the State during all these nine days are any indication, then it can be said that the State may witness a mid-term poll.
The BJP is morally afraid of fresh elections, as it is convinced that it would draw a blank in the Jammu region from where it had won as many as 25 seats out of a total of 37 into which the Jammu region is territorially divided. It wants to avert the possibility of mid-term poll at whatever cost. That's the reason the BJP leaders, including former Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh, have been assuring and reassuring PDP president Mehbooba Mufti that the BJP will not go back on its commitment that the PDP-BJP agenda of alliance on the basis of which the coalition Government was formed in March last year will be implemented in letter and spirit. They are prepared to go to any extent to make common cause with the PDP. They have left everything to the care of Mehbooba Mufti. It is a different story that the PDP leadership is taking its own time keeping into consideration its long-term interests in Kashmir Valley, its strong support-base. It is not in a hurry to form the Government.
The manner in which State Governor NN Vohra has started passing orders on important issues, including the directions to the Chief Secretary that he should prepare a detailed note on the issue of Pakistan refugees so that the same could be forwarded to the Centre for further necessary action in the matter, only indicated that the formation of Government in the State could take much longer time. His decision to delegate powers to the Secretaries to the State Government further suggested that the Governor's Rule could continue for some more time.
The failure of the PDP and the BJP to break the ice has only given an opportunity to the parties like the National Panthers Party (NPP) to demand dissolution of the J&K Assembly and ask the State Governor to order fresh elections so that the people of the State could elect a new Government. The NPP has repeatedly urged the State Governor to organize fresh elections in the State, saying this was the only option left to end political uncertainty in the State and enable the people to have a Government of their choice.
The Congress and the NC, which ruled or misruled the State for six long years before the PDP-BJP formed coalition Government in the State, have not till date demanded fresh elections. But they have been embarrassing the PDP almost on a daily basis for its alliance with what they call anti-Muslim and anti-Kashmir BJP. On Thursday, working president of the NC, Omar Abdullah, and party spokesperson Junaid Azim Mattu ridiculed the PDP leadership and charged it with not doing anything for Kashmir during those ten months when Mufti Sayeed was at the helm in the State. Mattu even taunted the PDP leadership on Thursday. He congratulated the PDP for its admission that it couldn't implement the agenda of alliance during those ten months.
"Senior PDP Leader and Spokesperson Naeem Akhtar deserves to be congratulated for a belated discovery of the remnants of a moral conscience which has compelled him to finally admit that PDP had deceived the people of J&K by forging an alliance with the BJP and then going against every single political promise that was marketed in the 'Agenda of the Alliance'. PDP's admission of treachery and deception under the cloak of a 'review' is a welcome development", Mattu said in a statement.
The Congress also didn't lag behind, notwithstanding the fact that AICC president Sonia Gandhi and Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad wanted the PDP to snap ties with the BJP and form coalition Government in the State with the Congress. JKPCC chief Ghulam Ahmad Mir said that the Congress will not offer support to the PDP for the formation of Government in the State. The objective of both the Congress and the NC is to create a situation that forces the PDP not to go in for any kind of relation with the BJP. Their objective is clear: Push the PDP to the wall in Kashmir.
The PDP can't ignore the combined tirade of the canny NC and the Congress. The point is that the NC and the Congress believe that mid-term poll, if held at this point of time will help them avenge their defeat and win more seats. And all of their moves only suggest that they want mid-term poll. |
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