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| Calls on Governor, seeks more time | | | Hyder Ali
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Mar 4: In a significant development, which hints at the Peoples Democratic Party and the Bharratiya Janta Party government formation in the state in the coming days, the PDP President Mehbooba Mufti today called on Governor NN Vohra in the winter capital and sought more time to end the deadlock.
Sources said amid mounting pressure from the rival National Conference that the Governor must dissolve the Assembly and pave way for the new elections, the government has started to review, what lies in the heart of the two parties, which have failed to evolve consensus over government formation in the state.
Sources said to a "straight forward" question posed by Vohra over government formation, Mehbooba replied that her party be given more time to think. The Raj Bhawan sources said she told the Governor that backchannel talks were on between the two parties and it would be premature to say that there was no chance for government formation.
"We are trying to resolve the issues. Basically execution of some confidence Building Measures are awaited, which is why we are unable to decide… Because we want to show something tangible to the people of the state," she is understood to have told the Governor.
The sources said the Governor consented to give some more time but equally asked her resolve the issue as early as possible.
Since the death of the then chief Minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed on January 7, when Mehbooba rejected to take oath as his successor, the relationship between the PDP and BJP has been on "flip-flop" mode.
While after the demise of Mufti it appeared that the alliance is over, a ray of hope emerged after his 40th day mourning function, traditionally called Chehlum, when senior BJP leader Ram Madhav flew to Kashmir and held "secret but positive talks" with the PDP.
Thereafter a 2-member PDP team comprising former Finance Minister Haseed Drabu and noted intellectual Prof Amitabh Matto had left for New Delhi to hold deliberations with the central government. But sources said in the absence of their direct interaction with Prime Minister Narendar Modi coupled with no special package given to J&K in the Union Budget 2016, the duo was asked to come back.
Sources said thereafter another hope emerged when BJP send "fresh feelers for continuation of alliance." Earlier this week the same was hinted at by Parvez Deewan, Advisor to Governor, who during his Kashmir visit publicly said that the Governor rule was likely to end in a fortnight. He reiterated this not once but twice at a meeting held here.
Today things got clearer in the winter capital of Jammu when Mehbooba said she was not afraid of criticism over government formation with the rightwing party but wanted the Centre to send out a "signal" that it will do "everything" for the welfare of people of Jammu and Kashmir.
The Raj Bhawan, on the other hand, has been under tremendous pressure from National Conference that the Assembly be dissolved forthwith. On March 3, former Chief Minister and NC working President Omar Abdullah said his party was ready for elections.
The NC leaders including Nasir Aslam Wani have been constantly telling the Governor that delay in dissolving the Assembly would amount to exploitation of people who are being unduly denied their right to elect a new government.
Rumors have been flying thick and fast that the BJP is more interested in continuance of alliance and wants to correct its "misadventures" of the 10-month governance when it miserably failed to come up to the expectations of the people of Jammu, who voted the party to power.
The popular notion is that if this time fresh elections are held, the BJP may even fail to open its account in Jammu region. "BJP is desperate to continue with the alliance," the sources said.
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