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| PDP unlikely to tie-up with Congress | | Ending Governor's Rule | | Neha
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 13: The PDP, which won 28 seats in the just-held assembly elections and relegated the ruling NC to the third position, is under tremendous pressure to form the government as early as possible so that the Governor's Rule which was imposed on January 8 ends and the state gets a popularly elected government. Similar is the case of the BJP, which put up a great show in the elections and not only won 25 seats, including seats from Doda, Ramban, Kishtwar and Rajouri districts, but also polled the highest number of votes. People in Jammu also want the BJP to work towards the establishment of popular rule so that their grievances are redressed and developmental activities are undertaken in the state.
Some of those who want the PDP to lead the state during the next six years have urged its leadership to do business with the Congress, which was rejected by the people both of Jammu province and Kashmir region and which won only 12 seats in the 87-member assembly. They have argued that both the PDP and the BJP are "secular" parties and since both the parties also contested the assembly elections on the anti-BJP and anti-NC poll planks, it would be only desirable if they joined hands and seek the support of four independent MLAs from Kashmir, Kargil and Jammu to form the next government in the state. Besides, they have reminded the PDP leadership that it had worked with the Congress between November 2002 and November 2005 and that "Mufti Mohammad Sayeed had handed down to the people a good government". "If the PDP could work with the Congress in the past, why can't it do the same in the larger interest of the people of the state?", they have asked.
Significantly, there are also some newly elected PDP MLAs who are also opposed to any kind of truck between their party and the BJP. Notwithstanding the fact that the PDP has kept all the options open, PDP patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed has not uttered a single word in favour of the PDP-Congress alliance or against it. The reasons are obvious. After all, the people of Kashmir have rejected the Congress and an alliance between the PDP and the Congress is unlikely to go down well with those in Kashmir who rejected both the Congress and the NC and gave maximum number of seats (25 out of 46 in Kashmir) to the PDP. The Mufti is a shrewd politician. He would play his cards well. In fact, there are reasons to believe that he would think a hundred-time before making up his mind to work with this or that political party.
But one thing is very clear: He would want a dispensation that doesn't exclude Jammu, which is the second largest region of the state after Ladakh. Even the staunch supporters of Kashmiri Muslim sub-nationalism such as Barkha Dutt of the NDTV 24X7 have rejected the suggestion that the PDP should work with the Congress. "In real terms that politically accommodate how both regions, Jammu and the Valley, have voted, the only logical outcome is a joining of hands between the BJP and the PDP. The National Conference's offer of support to the PDP, while dramatic and with strong street support in the Valley, excludes Jammu entirely. It was perhaps more a googly designed to knock out a joint-innings between the Mufti and Modi. So unless Omar Abdullah decides to back a BJP-led government, which is unlikely, the only reasonably representative political formation left is the unlikely combination of the BJP and the PDP," she, for example, has said.
All in all, it can be said that the possibility of the PDP joining hands with the Congress, which is neither here nor there, is too remote. |
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