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Early Times Report
jammu, Jan 18: Two major developments which unfolded on Sunday have rattled and unnerved what is being termed as the "unpopular", "power-hungry" and "unscrupulous" BJP. One was that the PDP core group, which met for five long hours in Srinagar at the Mehbooba Mufti's residence to discuss the political situation arising out of Chief Minister Mufti Sayeed's death on January 7 and take a call on forming or not forming coalition with the BJP, authorized the party president to take a final decision on the government formation with the BJP or otherwise. PDP president and daughter for late Mufti Sayeed, Mehbooba Mufti, said that she was not in a hurry and that she will take her own time.
Speaking at the end of five-hour-long meting, Mehbooba said that she would not "rush in haste". "You have given me the mandate to take a final call. I will take my time," she said during the very crucial meeting of the extended core group.
The other development that unnerved the BJP was the suggestion for fresh elections in J&K as was given by NC president Farooq Abdullah and his son and working president of the party Omar Abdullah. Both Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah took the PDP leadership to task for the prevailing confusion over the government formation and suggested that dissolution of the present assembly and fresh elections was the only option left now.
"If the two parties (PDP and BJP) are unable to form the government and solve problems of the people then the assembly must be dissolved and the state should go to fresh assembly elections under the Governor's Rule, which has been imposed in the state since January 8 after the death of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed.
"If PDP and BJP, which have numbers to form the Government, are unable to cobble up an alliance once again, which they had formed after November-December 2014 Assembly elections, the state must go for the Assembly elections," Farooq Abdullah said in Jammu while talking to reporters in the morning.
A day before, NC MLA from Budgam and party's chief spokesperson Aga Ruhullah Mehdi had also asked the PDP leadership to break its relations with the BJP and seek fresh elections to end political instability in J&K. "If PDP is truly not hungry for power at the cost of its own dignity and much more importantly that of the state, they should break their opportunistic alliance with the BJP and give the people a chance to decide their fate in fresh elections rather than asking the Prime Minister for a face saver," he had said in a statement.
As said, the statement of Mehbooba Mufti that she would not act in haste and the NC's suggestion for fresh elections have only unnerved the BJP. And the BJP leader who reacted to both these developments was none other than former Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh. "The PDP is delaying government formation by not making the party's official stand clear on the issue," he said, adding that "we have conveyed to the PDP our party stand and now we are waiting for their reply". "There is no pre-condition from either of the coalition partners. Though we talk with the PDP leaders but the official stand should be made clear by them, which has not been done yet," he further said. He ignored what PDP spokesperson Naeem Akhtar said about Pakistan, agenda of alliance and the PDP's vision for J&K. The reasons were obvious and one of the reasons was the BJP's urge for power-sharing with the PDP at whatever cost.
The mortally afraid BJP leader also criticized the NC leaders for their demand seeking dissolution of the assembly and fresh elections in J&K. "There is no probability of fresh elections in this situation. There is no chance of fresh elections. We hope for positive results in coming days," he said.
Two things were amply clear from what the BJP leader said. One was that the BJP was eager to throw in its lot with the PDP in general and PDP president in particular and obey all the diktats of the PDP. The other was that the BJP didn't want fresh elections at this point in time, as it believes, and rightly so, that the badly let down people of Jammu province would decimate the party.
It is obvious that it is advantage the PDP. The PDP would now extract more concessions from the out-on-the-limb, frustrated and power-hungry BJP. |
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