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| To prevent further 'headhunting', PDP approaches national parties | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Dec 24: In a bid to prevent any further exit of the leaders from the Peoples Democratic Party, the PDP leadership is understood to have approached some national parties seeking their support.
Sources said some of the senior PDP leaders have approached the Congress and the Bharatiya Janta Party with a request that the two parties should avoid encouraging leaders from the regional party for "any rebellion" as it would set a "bad precedence."
Sources said after some initial conversations on phone, some of PDP leaders will be lobbying in the national capital with the same intention.
Sources said the PDP president Mehbooba Mufti has inputs that one of the leaders from her party who plans to float a separate party is drawing support from the two national parties.
The said PDP leader who is also a businessman is understood to have been in contact with the BJP and Congress in New Delhi.
Sources said no sooner Mehbooba Mufti got to know about the developments, she has approached the national parties.
It was reliably learnt apart from the businessman turned politician who plans to float the separate party, one of the senior PDP leaders from north Kashmir has been in constant touch with the some leaders from the Congress and is likely to join the national party.
Sources said the PDP has conveyed to the national parties that "headhunting" would "affect the trust of people of Kashmir in the national parties."
Interestingly both the PDP leaders who are allegedly in contact with the national parties have been staying away from the PDP activities. On December 22, when Mehbooba Mufti called a meeting of the senior leaders, both of them had stayed away from the meet.
Sources said both of them have got it conveyed to the PDP leadership that they were no more interested to be in the party.
While one of them has expressed "resentment" over not having been given a "good ministry" the other one has complained of not having been allowed to become the chief minister.
"All such faces got pampered by the national parties and this was not good for the healthy politics in a place like Kashmir," said a PDP leader on the condition of anonymity.
Despite repeated attempts the PDP leadership couldn't be contacted for comments. |
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