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BJP seeks Finance or Home, PDP reluctant 2/14/2015 11:19:13 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Feb 14: The BJP is unlikely to settle for less important portfolios. The party is insisting that it should be given either Finance or Home. The PDP, however is not agreeing to it. It is one of the key issues which is delaying the government formation. "We had agreed to give chief ministerial tenure for full six-year to the PDP. But after that it is the Home and Finance departments which are most important. These are departments which decide the governance and policy making. We don't want to play the role second fiddle. We can't be Congress which was satisfied with less important ministries," said a senior BJP leader, wishing not be named. The PDP has put this condition that it will have all the three important ministries. It had its say in the previous agreement with the Congress. Even NC had this agreement. But, it also created a sense of the resentment in the Jammu region. "Getting a Deputy Chief Minister is not enough. It is not a constitutional post but just a political nomenclature to appease the people of the Jammu. The people now need real power and for that we need to be in governance in real sense and for that we need to have one of these two departments," said the leader. The PDP however feels that giving any of these departments will send a message in the Valley that the party is appeasing the BJP to get into the power. The party feels that it could have a backlash in the valley and that is the reason it is not giving space to the BJP on this account. "NC has already started a campaign against us that we have sold the Kashmir to appease BJP just for the sake of the power. If we go any further it will give more space to NC and BJP must realise it. The BJP is coming to power for the first time but for us it will be crucial test to revive and be in political contention," said a senior PDP leader.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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