Both PDP obtained fax communications for keeping services using their commanders about the government development night in the Governor on Saturday. Both Mr. Sharma and Ms. Mufti are planned to meet up the Governor separately morning.
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PDP, with 28 MLAs in the 87-member Assembly and BJP with 25 legislators, ran a coalition government headed by late Mufti Mohammad Sayeed for 10 months before his demise on January 7.
“Since PDP is the single largest party, the BJP with its allies claim to have the maximum number of seats in the state the Governor will offer them the opportunity to form the government”.
While remaining evasive on what she told the Governor over government formation, the PDP chief said, “Jammu and Kashmir is a different state, there are different challenges”. The state is now under Governor’s rule.
The meeting was held at BJP general secretary Ashok Kaul’s residence and the party’s senior leaders Jugal Kishore (MP), Nirmal Singh (former Deputy Chief Minister), Kavinder Gupta (Assembly Speaker) Bali Bhagat (legislator) and Narender Singh attended the meeting besides Sat Paul Sharma. Agenda of Alliance is the vision of Narendra Modi and Mufti Mohammed Sayeed to take Jammu and Kashmir forward.
“The Governor has called us in the evening (tomorrow) to discuss about the formation of the government”.
Reacting to Omar Abdullah’s jibe, PDP senior leader Naeem Akhtar said: “I don’t want to get involved in what the Abdullahs say”.
The Governor has written to leaders of the two parties asking them to clarify their stand on government formation by today. All we want is: “honest and faithful implementation of the “Agenda of the Alliance”. He also stated that his celebration isn’t just devoted to applying “Agenda of the Alliance”, the most popular minimum program achieved between your two attributes for government development this past year, “but may also believe and function beyond it”. “They have been elected to govern and even a minute’s delay is not good”, said party spokesman Abhishek Singhvi.
Asked whether the party was preparing for fresh elections, Akhtar said “we have not said that”.
First and foremost the issue before him is the question of presenting a budget or a Vote on Account before the month ends.
“However, there has been no time frame set for it so far”, he said after having half an hour long meeting with PDP president Mehbooba Mufti at State Guest House here on Tuesday afternoon.
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Earlier, the PDP had taken a firm stand and asserted that the Bharatiya Janata Party should give out concrete assurances for implementing the coalition since it is in power at the Centre.
