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| NC legislators 'unhappy' over Omar-Amit Shah meet | | Keep calm, I'll be back, tweets Omar | | Fazal Khan
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Dec 25: The outgoing Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Omar Abdullah postponing his London trip and meeting top BJP leaders, including the BJP Chief Amit Shah, in New Delhi today triggered speculations that NC and BJP are coming closer to strike a deal over the government formation in Jammu and Kashmir, where the Assembly elections threw a fractured verdict earlier this week.
Sources told Early Times that Omar Abdullah led National Conference which bagged 15 seats would get the Deputy Chief Minister post, one Rajya Sabha seat and one cabinet berth at the Centre if it joins hands with the BJP.
The BJP which won 25 seats is eyeing Chief Minister's post for the entire term and is insisting that the top post should be given to a Hindu politician from the Jammu region, sources added.
Soon after meeting the top BJP leaders in New Delhi Omar took to the micro blogging site twitter. "Keep calm cause I'll be back," Omar tweeted.
He also changed his bio there to: "Former CM of J&K; MLA from Beerwah, Budgam (the gateway to Gulmarg)."
However, the senior BJP leader Ram Madhav denied that any meeting had taken place between the two parties.
As the word about Omar-Amit Shah meet spread in Kashmir a few NC legislators, according to the sources, approached the National Conference General Secretary Ali Mohammad Sagar and expressed their resentment against the decision of the party top brass to join hands with BJP.
Sources said that a few NC MLAs even threatened to quit the party if NC goes with BJP. "The NC MLAs were of the opinion that party should extend its support to Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to keep BJP at bay," they added.
A few leaders are understood to have taken a strong exception to PDP not responding to the NC's offer. "We have already offered support to PDP officially but they have not responded. We cannot go and beg them to accept our support," a senior NC leader is understood to have said. "If PDP doesn't respond to our offer we will be left with no other option other than to form next dispensation with BJP to prevent imposition of Governor's rule in the state," the leader added.
The former minister and NC legislator from Budgam Aga Ruhullah while talking to a national news channel said that forging an alliance with PDP should be NC's top priority. "We have a thin line of ideological difference with PDP that can be crossed for the larger benefit of people, while as with BJP we have strong ideological differences and BJP is trying to dictate terms to us which is not acceptable. Party leadership should think twice before joining hands with BJP."
Sources said that BJP leaders before finalizing any deal with National Conference want to hold talks with the Peoples Democratic Party, which emerged as single largest party by bagging 28 seats in the 87 member House. "The BJP leader Ram Madhav and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley have got it conveyed to the PDP leadership that it should break its silence and come forward for talks," sources added. |
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