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Minam Saqib
Early Times Report
srinagar, May 12: The three-year rule of the PDP-BJP government has been marred by controversies right from day one.
Mufti Mohammad Sayeed took over the Chief Minister of state on March 2015. After his death, his daughter Mehbooba Mufti became the Chief Minister of the PDP-BJP on April 2016.
For the last three years, it has not been a smooth sailing for both the parties. "The gaps are widening with each passing day," a PDP leader said. He said the coalition partners are divided on number of issues, with the result the functioning of the government has suffered heavily.
"Most of the times, the PDP-BJP leaders remain busy in criticizing each other. They are divided on all controversial issues. It is affecting the overall functioning of the governance," he said.
"The next few years will be tougher. As the elections will come closer, there will be more widening gaps," said a Kashmir University professor, wishing not to be named.
He said the present dispensation faced a "lot of controversies" since they formed the government. "It was for the first time when two parties with different ideologues came together and formed the government," he said.
Recalling the events that took place in the last two years, it seems the incumbent government faced several challenges including controversies, which overshadowed the governance.
Soon after taking over as CM, Mehbooba faced her first test at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Srinagar where non-Kashmiri students clashed with Kashmiri students and the state police over a cricket match. This became a national issue and the NIT was shut for weeks.
The implementation of the controversial National Food Security Act (NFSA) was a serious challenge for the PDP-BJP government, which turned into a law and order problem situation in the state.
In September 2016, PDP Srinagar MP and the party's founder member, Tariq Hameed Karra, left both his Lok Sabha seat and the PDP, terming its alliance with the BJP "unnatural and unethical".
Mehbooba's statement also triggered a massive controversy when she called "anti-national" all those demanding abrogation of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution.
The BJP slammed her statement following which Speaker Kavinder Gupta directed to expunge her remarks from the assembly records.
On July 24, 2017, the NIA arrested seven Hurriyat leaders. It has been reported that Chief Minister was not in favour of the crackdown. "You cannot kill an idea. You cannot jail an idea. Reconciliation and dialogue are the only way. Guns, violence and arrests are not a solution," she had said.
Mehbooba, who even reached out to arch rival Farooq Abdullah of the NC on the matter, warned, "If the special constitutional status of J&K is tampered with, or the Permanent Resident Act (35A) removed, there will be no one to shoulder the Indian flag in the Valley."
On February 14, after a group of people led by a BJP leader took out a protest in favour of an accused in the case, the CM tweeted, "Appalled by the marches & protests in defense of the recently apprehended rapist in Kathua. Also horrified by their use of our national flag… this is nothing short of desecration." |
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