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Is PDP planning to leave BJP and rope in Congress? Significant political development 9/17/2016 11:34:03 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 17: On Friday, a very significant political development took place in the far off Kargil district of Ladakh region. The lone PDP councilor, Kacho Ahmad Ali Khan, Councilor from Baltak constituency, was elected as Chief Executive Councilor of the Kargil Autonomous Hill Development Council. His election was not an ordinary political event; it was an extraordinary political development that has great bearing on the political scene of the state. Why the election of Ali Khan as Chief Executive Councilor could be described as a great event of political import? Because the Congress, which had 14 councilors in the Council voted for him and ensured his victory. The National Conference's all 14 Councilors didn't took part in the electoral exercise; they stayed away and have dubbed the election of Ali Khan a farce election. That the Congress, which till the other day was hobnobbing with the National Conference and speaking its voice or playing second fiddle to it, extended unqualified support to the PDP, which is ruling the state in alliance with the BJP, indicates three things. One, the PDP has told the BJP that it could sever its ties with the BJP in case it refused to implement the divisive agenda of alliance. Two, the PDP has given everyone to understand that it would not mind forging an alliance with the Congress at the state level and forming coalition government with it. The Congress had itself in 2015 repeatedly offered unconditional support to the PDP, saying it wanted the PDP to keep the BJP out of power in the state. The Congress has 13 MLAs and the PDP 28. The PDP needs the support of three more MLAs and they are there in Kashmir; they are Engineer Rashid, Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami and Mohammad Hakim Yaseen. Three, the alliance between the PDP and the Congress in Kargil suggested that both the PDP and the Congress are working in tandem to win over the "alienated" Kashmiris. The Kashmiris are not happy with the PDP because of its alliance with the BJP. PDP MP Muzaffar Hussain Baig has publicly said so and Tariq Hamid Karra, who resigned from the PDP and from the Lok Sabha on Thursday had also said the same thing. In fact, he said he was resigning because he didn't like the PDP's alliance with the BJP and virtually described the BJP as a party of Nazis. The next few days are very crucial. The PDP leadership will meet next week to discuss the political situation in the state and one of themes under discussion would be: Why Karra quit the PDP? This meeting will decide the fate of the PDP-BJP coalition. It would not be surprising if after the meeting it is announced that the PDP has decided to forge alliance with the Congress.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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