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| PDP-BJP alliance was not successful, says HM Rajnath Singh | | Chances of Govt formation nil | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Oct 6: Chances of government formation in Jammu & Kashmir have further receded and the possibility of the BJP re-stitching alliance with the Kashmir-based PDP of Mehbooba Mufti is also too remote. This has become quite clear first from the statements of Jammu & Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik and then from the statement of no less than Home Minister Rajnat Singh made in Delhi on Friday during the Hindustan Times Sumit.
Two days ago, the Jammu & Kashmir Governor, Satya Pal Malik, had made it abundantly clear that he will not allow horse-trading in the state and that new government could be formed only after fresh election held either with the general elections in May 2019 or even later. The statement of the Governor had obviously dampened the spirit of the local BJP leadership in general and BJP lawmakers in particular. The BJP leaders and a number of former BJP ministers had on occasions more than one given the people to understand that they were in touch with "like-minded lawmakers and like-minded parties in Kashmir" and were exploring the possibility of government formation in the state. Their refrain was that the Governor's rule was no substitute to the democratically-elected government.
On Friday, Home Minister Rajnath Singh without mincing words said that the PDP-BJP coalition was not successful and that it failed to come up to the expectations.
Acknowledging that "the PDP-BJP coalition government experiment wasn't successful in Jammu& Kashmir," the Home Minister said that "the government was formed on the basis of an Agenda as both PDP and BJP had emerged No. 1 and No. 2 parties after Assembly elections in the State in view of fractured mandate".
In other words, Home Minister Rajnath Singh censured both the BJP and the PDP. Rajnath Singh is a party veteran. He served as the BJP chief not once but twice. Hence, his statement that "the PDP-BJP coalition government experiment wasn't successful in Jammu & Kashmir" should be taken to mean that the BJP high command would not allow its local unit to again tie up with a party that not only further vitiated the atmosphere in Kashmir by pursuing pro-separatist agenda and pro-Pakistan line but also hurt the interests of the people of Jammu and Ladakh, the BJP's two core constituencies in the border State of Jammu & Kashmir. |
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