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| PDP gets negative feedback of 'show of power' on Vajpayee funeral | | PDP attendance at Vajpayee funeral | |  Early Times Report
srinagar, Aug 20: Even as the Peoples Democratic Party leadership attended the funeral of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in the national capital recently, the PDP has got negative feedback of the move.
Around two dozen PDP leaders, mainly MLAs led by party president Mehbooba Mufti had attended Vajpayee's funeral.
But the development, as per the insiders, failed to give desired results as were expected by the party.
Sources said the PDP leadership on return from the national capital had sought feedback of its move, but that there was little appreciation from any of the concerned quarters.
Sources said the PDP had called a meeting where most the leaders admitted that the move hasn't gone down well.
The Bharatiya Janta Party, which pulled out of the alliance with PDP in Jammu and Kashmir in June, also looked unimpressed with the PDP.
Sources said the BJP leadership didn't invite the PDP's visiting team for special condolence functions held in remembrance of Vajpayee.
Sources said some of the party leaders were expecting that the extraordinary attendance of the PDP at the funeral would bring the regional party again closer to the BJP for a possible new alliance in the state.
But the BJP leadership has been silent on the issue of formation of new government.
Sources said the PDP President was told by her close aides that it would have been enough if she alone had attended the funeral. "Taking almost all the MLAs along was not a good move as the other parties took it as a political stunt about show of power," said a PDP leader on the condition of anonymity.
Sources said some of the senior leaders of PDP had come up with the idea of taking "army of MLAs" along to New Delhi to prove the rebels headed by Imran Ansari wrong.
Pertinently Ansari has been claiming that he enjoys support of half the MLAs. |
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