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Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 17: All is not well with the ruling PDP-BJP coalition. Two immediate issues which have the potential of destabilizing the coalition government are the insistence of the PDP on (1) reservation of 25 per cent positions of the level of Deputy Inspector General of Police and Inspector Generals of police for the local Superintendents of Police and Senior Superintendents of Police and (2) amendments in the Central Goods and Services Tax (GST) and the opposition of the BJP to the PDP's insistence.
As for the KPS issue, BJP ministers in the coalition government in one voice have rejected the PDP's insistence, saying what the PDP was demanding was not prevalent in any other state of the Union and, hence, there could not be reservation for local police officers. So much so, Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh told the Chief Minister on her face in the Cabinet meeting that the BJP would go only by the advice of the PMO and the party high command - a remark that infuriated the Chief Minister to the extent that she walked out of the meeting, saying "let New Delhi take all the decisions".
That it was the Deputy Chief Minister who explained away his party's stand only indicated that the BJP will not oblige the PDP. His remark that the move had serious implications for the party at the national level was a clear-cut stand of the BJP that it could not accept each and every demand of the PDP.
As for the GST, state BJP general secretary organization Ashok Koul has said without mincing words that it wanted the state government to adopt and implement the GST in full or without any amendment.
"The GST is being implemented all over India. For the good of the people and business community the Act should be implemented in J&K as well. We (BJP) have made out point on the issue," he was quoted as saying on Thursday.
Ashok Koul went a step further when he disapproved of the suggestion that the implementation of the GST in its original form will erode the state's special status. He said: "If we want development for J&K and if we want the state to progress like Mumbai and Bangalore then we should leave these 'small issues' behind. Has the implementation of the Central Food Security Act done any harm to Article 370? We should think of progress," he said while countering the special status argument.
If one goes by the stand the BJP has taken on the twin issue of KPS and GST and the stand taken by the PDP, then it can be assumed that both the parties would lock horn and as and when this happens, the coalition would get destabilized. The fundamental problem with both the parties is that while the BJP is a national party that is ruling the country, the PDP is a regional outfit having its support-base confined basically to the Valley.
Next few days are going to be very crucial for the coalition.
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