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| BJP's anti-Jammu credentials stand exposed | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 2: The PDP and Kashmir have again won and the ungrateful BJP has again ditched Jammu. This is what the dramatic developments which unfolded on Friday evening in Jammu clearly suggested.
BJP national general secretary Ram Madhav, who reached Jammu last evening by a chartered plane, put the record straight, saying all the issues between the two parties stood resolved and that PDP president Mehbooba Mufti would decide the date of oath-taking. If all goes well, Mehbooba Mufti would assume the office on April 4.
"We have extended support to the PDP leadership 'in principle' to form the Government and we have conveyed to the Governor NN Vohra that since the first meeting took place at a short notice the leadership of both the parties needed to carry out more discussions to work out the basic modalities of formation of the Government. For the past three-four days we held series of meetings and yesterday (Thursday) Nirmal Singh and PDP Chief Mehbooba Mufti held detailed discussions and everything became clear," Ram Madhav said. He refused to spell out the contours of the Cabinet composition and whether the differences over distribution of portfolio allocation had been sorted out with the PDP leadership. He only said: "Everything will be clear to you once the process of Government formation will be over".
Ram Madhav made these statements after holding meetings with senior party functionaries, former Ministers and party MLAs. His statement that there were no differences between the two parties was only a desperate attempt on his part to hide the truth. The truth is that he himself admitted that former Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh had held meeting with Mehbooba Mufti to sort out all the issues and work out the modalities on the Government formation - a fact also acknowledged by Nirmal Singh himself.
Nirmal Singh said the PDP and the BJP leadership was in constant touch with each other after the demise of Chief Minister Mufti Sayeed on January 7 and the BJP had offered unconditional support to the PDP and reassured Mehbooba Mufti that agenda of alliance was a sacred document for both the parties.
"AoA (agenda of alliance) is our guiding book, which is 'unconditional' and it is sacred for PDP vis-a-vis commitment for us. Let the oath ceremony takes place on April 4, portfolios can be distributed and shared thereafter having consultations and discussions with our alliance partner as it is not a big deal," he, inter-alia, said.
From what Madhav and Singh said it was clear that there were serious differences between the two parties, particularly on the composition and complexion of the Cabinet and BJP's share as far as distribution of portfolios were concerned. Madhav's statement that "everything will be clear to you (media persons) once the process of Government formation will be over" and Singh's statement that "let the oath ceremony takes place on April 4, portfolios can be distributed and shared thereafter after having consultations and discussions with our alliance partner as it is not a big deal" were self-explanatory. Even a common man will understand that it was the BJP that knelt and the PDP, which won the show for the second time in a row, made the BJP fall in line.
Interestingly, BJP national president Amit Shah had adopted similar approach on February 27, 2015, when asked to spell out the contours of power-sharing deal struck between the two parties. He had only said that the public will know everything the day the PDP-BJP coalition Government was formed in Jammu. And when the Government was formed on March 1 in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the people of Jammu got disturbed; they only chaffed and seethed with anger: The reason was inadequate share of Jammu in the Government and the controversial agenda of alliance.
There are reasons to believe that the PDP has succeeded in making the BJP to accept the same old power-sharing formula under which Kashmir got almost 70 per cent representation in the Cabinet and also got almost all the portfolios. Had this been not the case, Madhav and Singh would surely have revealed everything like the PDP did a day before. The PDP had said that it will not concede any new demand of the BJP and that the BJP had to accept the position it accepted during the time of late Mufti Sayeed.
In any case, everything would be in public domain on Monday, when Mehbooba Mufti takes oath of office and secrecy as the first women Chief Minister of the State. It will be clear who got what for Kashmir and who got what for Jammu. The BJP would lose its face in Jammu and elsewhere in the country in case it accepted the same old power-sharing formula. |
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