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| Where are MLAs with whose support Sajad Lone staked claim to form Govt? | | A month after assembly dissolution, skeletons tumble | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 23: With each passing day, entangled political situation is getting resolved with people declaring their proximities in open, one wonders where are those MLAs with whose support Sajad Gani Lone had staked the claim to form the government in J&K last month.
On November 22 that is a day after Governor Satya Pal Malik dissolved the Jammu and Kashmir assembly, Peoples Conference Chairman Sajad Gani Lone had reiterated that his party had adequate numbers to form the government in the state.
Lone, who served as cabinet minister in previous BJP-PDP coalition in Jammu and Kashmir had written a letter to the Governor, staking claim for the formation of the government only after he was sure that he had enough numbers in the kitty. "I don't know about PDP and NC but we had numbers to form the government. Now when we have accepted Governor's decision to dissolve the assembly, the PDP which is making cry of a thief should move the court of law," Sajad had said at that point of time.
The PC chairman while responding to the question about him being involved in breaking the political parties and forming the "third front", said NC and the PDP have no right to give lectures on democracy as they are themselves involved in undermining the democratic institutions of the state with impunity. "Whatever I did and I am doing is within the ambit of constitution and within the legal framework. However, what NC has done in the past was incorrigible and proved lethal for the state. It is they who rigged the 1987 elections due to which gun came to Kashmir and one lakh people died. PDP too was hand in glove with schemers to undermine state's democracy in 1984 as well as in 1987. Therefore, they have no moral ground to question my actions," Sajad said.
He accused the NC and PDP of being air dropped into the state politics and not being chosen democratically. "These two parties have been placed at the citadel while democratic institutions were undermined and sidelined. Today, they have no right to cry foul over the developments taking place in the state," Sajad said.
The PC chairman who is widely being speculated as BJP's Chief Ministerial candidate said it is among the very probabilities that both NC and PDP could race against each other and sit in BJP's lap to stay somehow in power. Without divulging further details, Sajad said that while he is yet to decide whether to align with the BJP or not ahead of the assembly elections, it is highly possible that both NC and PDP could extend the olive brach to BJP in a bid to swim with the tide.
Meanwhile, as one month has passed since dissolution of the state assembly, there are only two legislators namely Imran Ansari and his uncle Abid Ansari who have joined his PC. One wonders, where are those 18 MLAs with whose support Sajad staked claim for the formation of the government and even dispatched letter to Raj Bhavan. |
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