“Mehboobaji is still mourning the great loss…” Though it is hard decision for Mehbooba Mufti to take but she should keep the party in her mind and take suggestion of workers as they have been facing a hard situation after the alliance with BJP. “And not only has it damaged Kashmir, but also PDP”, the PDP MP said.
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The coalition partners clashed over a range of issues: prompted by the local RSS unit, a proactive BJP divided the State on the issue of beef, on flying the Jammu and Kashmir flag along with the Tricolour, and the release of Kashmiri separatist Masarat Alam. With Sonia’s closeness to Mehbooba now clear to all, the PDP leaders presume that the BJP would tread a cautious path while dealing with it.
PDP leaders say it was natural for her to take time to make a decision on political issues after her father’s death.
Further Mehbooba would also like to put to rest a rumour floated post her father’s death that the BJP was looking to rotate the post of Chief Minister. It chose the NC and backed Omar Abdullah, who at 39 became the youngest chief minister of the state. “We have a constitutional mechanism through which the state governor can run the affairs of governance through bureaucrats without appointing any advisors for the intervening period”, Beigh told reporters.
In occupied Kashmir, the Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS) has said that the late CM Mufti Mohammad Sayeed was responsible for crimes perpetrated under his command while in power as Indian Home Minister and as puppet Chief Minister of Kashmir. It is for PDP to take the first call from their side.
The PDP and Congress can’t form a government on their own even if they decide to come together.
To claim power any single party or an alliance of parties should have 44 MLAs (Now 43 if Sayeed’s seat is excluded).
Sonia Gandhi’s arrival at Mehbooba Mufti’s residence Fairview in Srinagar has set off varied speculations of possible political coziness between the Congress and the PDP.
Hitting out at the BJP, Karra said, “For past nine months, I have strongly maintained that RSS-BJP is not acceptable to the people of J&K”.
The PDP leaders insist that nothing political should be read in the condolence meeting between Congress Sonia and Mehbooba.
“Omar knows that coalition is not going to survive for full term and in such scenarios he would like to cash the alliance failure, rather to mingle with PDP”, Wani added.
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“Mehbooba and whole family of Mufti Sahab are in grief”.
