| Alliance between BJP, PDP untenable | | 'Playing with fire' | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 5: "The BJP-PDP alliance is untenable". This is what those who matter in New Delhi's corridors of powers and opinion circles are saying. "Who will blink first or who will quit the coalition first" is the question that is also being asked. The general view is that the "BJP-PDP coalition has failed to produce the desired" and that the "situation in the state has worsened then ever before with Kashmir witnessing violence on an unprecedented scale" and "the gulf between Jammu province and Kashmir instead of being bridged has been further widened". "Jammu & Kashmir state is in a state of mess and this is not in the best interest of the people of the state and in the larger interest. The state of uncertainty has to end," is the upshot of those who are terming the "BJP-PDP coalition untenable".
Their argument is that "the PDP and the J&K BJP are on different pages on all key issues (the alleged Kathua rape case and murder of a child, talks with Pakistan, the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, cases against stone-pelters, dialogue with separatists" and, hence the coalition is "not just workable. "It is playing with fire in a state that is seeing some of its worst years since the insurgency erupted in the 1990s," they are saying, adding that "instead of nurturing a middle ground, the absence of any internal agreements has only emboldened extremes on either side".
Even "a senior BJP leader" in Delhi, according to a report, agreed that the coalition was untenable. "The coalition between the BJP and the PDP is untenable, going one step further to say: 'now it's just about who calls it off; them or us," a senior BJP leader was quoted as saying.
According to a report, the PDP is also in a dilemma. "PDP sources, say Mufti's party has a dilemma: if a defeat is certain in the next assembly elections, there is no real gain in forgoing the remaining two years (read 34 months) in power. Effectively, by missing earlier exit opportunities to claim political martyrdom or the higher ground, the PDP may have surrendered that authority to the BJP. In other words, the BJP has more to gain from walking out of the alliance; the PDP has more to lose by staying," the report has said.
If reports emanating from corridors of power in New Delhi are any indication, then it can be said that anything could happen. |
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