Mohammad Sayeed Malik, a former editor who was Mufti Sayeed’s long-time friend, believes that Mehbooba Mufti was the “natural choice” in PDP.
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He said they will take it up after the fourth day of mourning.
Mohammad Sayeed’s daughter Mufti Mehbooba is considered as successor to him. “Mufti Sahab provided a healing touch to J&K through his leadership. The governor can assume the reins of the state for six months in case of a constitutional crisis”, Zaffar Shah, a constitutional expert based in Srinagar said. PDP leaders said that Mehbooba was still recovering from the death of her father and her swearing in may take a few more days. Ms. Mufti needs to select a fresh group before the governor administers a brand new authority of ministers the pledge of a workplace. Both the alliance partners have maintained that the delayed swearing-in ceremony will not impact their relationship. “There is no constitutional crisis”. By virtue of which the Governor will be caretaker of the State affairs. He flew in here from New Delhi in a chartered plane earlier in the day to pay his condolences, but is said to have briefly discussed with her the formation of the new government at their hour-long meeting. Omar wrote on Twitter soon after BJP general secretary Ram Madhav chaired a meeting of party legislators here. The BJP legislature party will meet today to decide on the issue of extending support to Mehbooba. “My old BJP friends tell me that the party has no problem with Mehboobaji as CM, ” he added.
“There will be no oath-taking till at least Monday”, Muzzafar Hussain Baig, a lawmaker of Ms Mufti’s People’s Democratic Party has said.
Sayeed took over as chief minister of PDP-BJP coalition on March 1 previous year.
Beigh also stressed that the party does not want to put pressure on Mehbooba. The tragedy is huge and she is everybody’s source of strength. It’ll not be fair to drive her to complete something he explained. The situation may therefore entail a brief spell of governor’s rule and the decision is to be taken by the Centre.
Responding to a poser of a possible rift between both the ruling parties in the state, Madhav said “There is no question of any rift between both the parties as both were running the government together”.
A hard bargainer, Muftisaab took his own time in forging a BJP-PDP coalition that helped the saffron party share power for the first time in the state.
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Mehbooba was behind Sayeed’s success in last state polls as he became the CM of state for the second time.
