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| Omar Abdullah's concern for delay in Govt formation intriguing | | Pushing PDP to the wall | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 19: Ever since the demise of Chief Minister Mufti Sayeed, National Conference working president, Omar Abdullah, has been expressing his concern over the delay in the formation of Government in Jammu & Kashmir. In fact, he has been issuing provocative statements and also tweeting with a view to prompting PDP president Mehbooba Mufti to immediately form coalition Government.
"While the PDP has declared that the PDP-BJP 'Agenda of the Alliance' is a 'sacred document' and that PDP continues to be in awe of the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, there is an inexplicable delay in Government formation," he has been writing on his Facebook page and describing the delay in the Government formation as "bizzare and unprecedented".
Besides, he has been reminding the PDP leadership that the alliance between the PDP and the BJP is intact and also accusing Mehbooba Mufti of negotiating with the BJP leadership for some more concessions. "From the statement issued to the media at the conclusion of today's (Sunday) meeting by the PDP, it has become evident that the PDP-BJP alliance stands, that no conditions have been set by the PDP, that no negotiations are being conducted and the formation of the new PDP-BJP Government is a foregone conclusion," Omar Abdullah, for example, has said, adding that "the general perception about the delay in Government formation was that it is being done to salvage some bare minimum credibility for the PDP and to create a smokescreen of stiff morality".
In fact, Omar Abdullah is playing a double game. On the one hand, he has been saying that the coalition between the PDP and the BJP is very much intact and that the formation of the PDP-BJP coalition Government is a foregone conclusion and, on the other hand, he is provoking Mehbooba Mufti so that she severed her party's relations with the BJP and fresh elections were held in the State.
"PDP president Mehbooba Mufti and her party has two options - to either deliver on the promises made to the people of Jammu & Kashmir or to break the alliance with the BJP. To hang on to this alliance with the BJP for dear life while pretending to be the unwavering example of high morality is akin to aspiring to have the cake and eat it too," he has been saying to provoke the PDP president.
Not only Omar Abdullah, his father Farooq Abdullah is also provoking the PDP leadership. He is playing triple-game. On the one hand, he floated the idea of the NC-BJP tie up in case the latter approached the former and on the other, also blamed the media by saying that he never meant what he said about the possibility of the NC-BJP tie-up. Two days ago, he had said in Jammu that the NC's doors for the BJP were open and that the NC would consider doing business with the BJP provided the BJP approaches the NC for Government formation. Not only this, a day later, he and his son demanded dissolution of the Assembly and fresh elections.
One thing that has been common between the father and the son is that both have been expressing themselves against the Governor's rule and accusing the PDP of being responsible for political uncertainty in Jammu & Kashmir.
Indeed, their concern for the delay in the Government formation is very intriguing. Their intentions are not really pious. The truth is that they are fishing in the troubled waters hoping that a wrong move on the part of the PDP president would help the NC reoccupy the PDP's political space in the Valley. But Mehbooba Mufti is not a greenhorn in politics. She knows what to do, when to do and how to do. Shrewd as she is, Mehbooba Mufti must be weighing the pros and cons of alliance between the PDP and the BJP. She knows that her and the Abdullahs' constituency is the same and that' why she told members of the core group of her party that she was not in a hurry and that she will take time. She is not going to oblige the desperate Abdullahs. Nor will she ever walk into their trap, which they want her to do so that the PDP loses its credibility in the Valley. |
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