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| Mehbooba unlikely to oblige 'desperate' BJP | | Govt formation | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 10: Unconfirmed reports suggest that BJP general secretary Ram Madhav, who was the party's point-man in J&K and who, along with others in the PDP, drafted and finalized the controversial agenda of alliance, may meet PDP president Mehbooba Mufti in Srinagar after the 40-day mourning period ends to re-start dialogue with her to break the impasse over Government formation.
Unconfirmed reports said, because J&K BJP general secretary (organization) Ashok Koul on Tuesday refuted the media reports, including the PTI report, that Madhav will visit the State next week.
"There is no official communication between the two coalition partners and the status quo is being maintained", he was quoted as saying in Srinagar. PDP spokesperson and former Education Minister Naeem Akhtar also said almost the same. When asked if there was any further movement on the issue of Government formation, he said: "There is no further progress on this front and our party president has made it amply clear that for early resolution of this political impasse, Modi Government has to come forward with CBMs".
Whether that meeting between Mehbooba and Madhav takes place or not is not that important. What is important is the stand of the PDP. The question to be asked is: Will Mehbooba Mufti oblige the desperate-for-re-alliance-and-for-power- BJP? If one gives any credence to the Tuesday statement of Akhtar Naeem, then one can surely say that Mehbooba Mufti will not burn her fingers for nothing. She would not put at stake her own prestige and create a very awkward situation for her party in Srinagar after the stand she took on January 31 and February 1 in Srinagar and on February 2, 3, 4 and 5 in Jammu.
For, Mehbooba Mufti knows that assuming power before making Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP to fall in line or before making them to announce some major political concessions would be suicidal. She knows that NC leaders like Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah have already created a very difficult situation for her and for her party in the Kashmir Valley by accusing her of being an agent of Delhi and power hungry and of creating a situation that helped the Sangh Parivar to create some space for it in the Valley. Both the NC leaders, who had been fishing in the troubled waters ever since the demise of Mufti Sayeed on January 7, have left no stone unturned to lower her image in the eyes of the gullible Kashmiri Muslims and she knows it.
Mehbooba Mufti is Mehbooba Mufti. She could have formed the Government anytime after January 7, but she didn't do that, thus putting the BJP and the NC on the mat. It was for nothing that she described the decision of her father to join hands with the BJP "courageous but unpopular" and asked her party men that if they wanted to form Government in the present situation, they were free to choose a new leader and that she would walk alone and start from a scratch. She made these unambiguous statements on January 31 at Srinagar in the party meeting. She made similar statements thereafter as well.
The point is that she has reached a point of no return and that she will take the plunge only after the Prime Minister announced some major Kashmir-specific political concessions. Otherwise, she is all set to re-seek mandate from Kashmir. She will be a gainer because she will tell the Kashmiri people that she preferred her father's vision and Kashmiri cause over the office of Chief Minister. She will achieve three goals: She will reduce the NC to a non-entity in the Valley, she will show the BJP its rightful place and she would sweep the Valley as there will be a sympathy factor there. If she acts otherwise, the PDP will become a story of the past. |
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