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| Now, power hungry BJP to 'explore possibility' of Govt formation with NC | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Mar 3: Almost convinced that the PDP is unlikely to re-stitch alliance with the BJP for political reasons, including its compulsions in Kashmir and the kind of politics the NC has been playing since January 7, the latter has finally decided to explore the possibility of Government formation with the NC. "If the PDP doesn't open its cards latest by March 31, the BJP will explore the possibility of forming Government with the NC," said a top BJP leader on Wednesday on condition of anonymity.
"We discussed in detail the situation arising out of the Governor's decision to hold urban local bodies' and panchayat elections in the next few months as well as the possibility or otherwise of re-alliance with the PDP. The PDP is causing inordinate delay. If the PDP doesn't take decision on the Government formation before April 6 and the status quo is not broken, the Assembly would get automatically dissolved anytime after April 6. We can't afford to go to the people for seeking fresh mandate, as the electoral prospects of the party, according to grassroots workers, are not bright. We will be left with no other option but to approach the NC to find if it is willing to tie-up with the BJP," he told this correspondent at the PWD Guest House, Gandhi Nagar, last evening.
The BJP expressed its willingness to enter into an alliance with the NC despite the fact that NC working president Omar Abdullah on Wednesday made it absolutely clear that he will not do any business with the "anti-Muslim" BJP. "Me and my party NC will prefer to quit politics than ally with BJP. They have given nothing to us except destruction. Their intentions are only to kill Muslims. They are not happy with our prayers, our living and our religion," Omar Abdullah said while addressing party workers and supporters in Shopian (Kashmir).
Even otherwise, the BJP can't form Government with the NC because it and the NC have 25 and 12 MLAs, respectively. Even if the People's Conference two MLAs and independent MLA from Udhampur decide to make common cause with the BJP, their total number would be 40, four less than the required number. If the BJP believes that CPI-M MLA Mohammad Yuosuf Tarigami and two Kashmir based independent MLAs Engineer Rashid and Hakeem Yaseen, then it can be said that its leadership is living in a fool's paradise. None of them would offer support to the BJP-NC coalition, if it at all it is formed.
The point is that the BJP has no option but to bring on board the PDP, something unlikely to happen considering the stand party president Mehbooba Mufti has taken. She is not flexible. She is committed to her ideology and to her father's vision and she has left none in any doubt. She knows that her party would gain in case she says no to the Chief Minister's chair. She also knows the game plan of Omar Abdullah, who has been provoking her to rejoin hands with the BJP. Similarly, Omar Abdullah knows that the NC would lose more ground if he enters into an alliance with the BJP. The fact of the matter is that the BJP for the both the parties have virtually become untouchable.
All in all, it can be said that the State is slowly but surely heading towards midterm polls. Indeed, the BJP is in deep trouble with the party cadres openly saying that the "BJP will bite dust in the coming local bodies' and panchayat elections as the party has become very unpopular among the masses". |
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