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| Government formation: 'Problem is with PDP' | | | Early times Report
JAMMU, Jan 27: It was three weeks ago that Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed left the world. On January 8, the Governor’s rule was imposed. It then appeared that a new Government would be in place in a couple of days and it would be headed by the daughter of late Mufti Sayeed and PDP president Mehbooba Mufti. But it has not happened. Nor is there the possibility of the PDP-BJP coalition Government taking over the administration very soon.
The problem is not from the BJP side. The BJP had on day one extended its unqualified support to the PDP. It had even gone to extent of reassuring Mehbooba Mufti that it would give her a freehand so that she could fulfill her father's vision or dream or push forward her father's reconciliation-with-Pakistan and separatist agenda.
During these past 20 days, a number of BJP leaders, both at the Centre and in Jammu, have reiterated their offer of support to the PDP hoping that their assurances and re-assurances would move Mehbooba Mufti, but nothing of this sort has happened. She has not made any comment in public on Government formation or no Government formation with the BJP.
On the contrary, she has only met with the party leaders to get proper feedback from them on the impact of the PDP-BJP alliance on her Kashmir constituency. She would also meet them again on January 31 to discuss the party matters, including the ways and means which could make the membership drive a great success in the Valley. She would meet the Kashmiri PDP leaders in Srinagar on January 31 and Jammu-base PDP leaders in Jammu on February 3.
Why is Mehbooba Mufti taking so much time in taking a decision on the Government formation with the BJP? The answer is simple and straight. The answer is that the internal factor is not allowing her to take a final call. Reports suggest that a number of PDP legislators, barring some of those who held ministries under the Mufti Sayeed's Government, do not want the party high command to re-stitch alliance with the BJP. Their view is that the mood in the Valley is against such an alliance. Their number is 24, 18 MLAs and four MLCs. It's not a small number. They are same legislators who were not present in the party's meeting held on January 17, when Mehbooba Mufti was authorized to take a final call on the Government formation and when she said that she would take her own time. They want an alliance with the Congress, which is also ready to do business with the PDP.
Besides, there are powerful leaders like Tariq Hameed Karra, who have been urging Mehbooba Mufti not to re-enter into an alliance with the BJP in the larger interest of the PDP and Kashmir, saying its association with the BJP has caused an extensive damage to the party in Kashmir. Karra is a founder member of the party and also party MP in the Lok Sabha and former Finance Minister. Another party MP in the Lok Sabha and former Deputy Chief Minister Muzaffar Hussain Beigh was also not happy with the performance of the party, when it was in power. He was against most of the party's Ministers and critical of the very agenda of alliance.
Point is that the problem is with the PDP. Mehbooba Mufti is taking her own time because she has to bring on board all the party men and also to take care of her party's interests in Kashmir. Any wrong decision taken in haste could destroy the party itself. She knows that and that's the reason behind the inordinate delay in the Government formation. It is this delay that has unnerved all the former BJP Ministers and, at the same time, given an opportunity to the BJP MLAs to lobby at 11 Ashoka Road so that they could obtain berths in the new Council of Ministers in case Mehbooba Mufti finally took the plunge and decided to form Government with the BJP. |
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