Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 11: A group of senior leaders of the PDP are seriously thinking to expel party president Mehbooba Mufti from the party and to appoint former finance minister Altaf Bukhari as new party chief in place of Mehbooba.
Although Mehbooba Mufti has expelled eight leaders for meeting with foreign envoys, majority of the party leaders have established contact with Bukhari and suggested him to take control of the party.
On Thursday, PDP had expelled eight party leaders namely Dilawar Mir, Rafi Ahmad Mir, Zaffar Iqbal, Abdul Majeed Padroo, Raja Manzoor Khan, Javaid Hussain Baig, Qamar Hussain and Abdul Rahim Rather -- all former MLAs. On Friday former MLA Yawar Dilwar Mir, Muntazir Mohideen, PDP state secretary Mir Samiullah and Showkat Gayoor Andrabi resigned from the PDP.
Sources said that not only expelled but majority of party legislastors and senior leaders were in touch with Bukhari and were trying to persuade him to take control of the party.
Credible sources said that not only leaders from Valley, even a good number of PDP leaders including former legislators were in touch with Altaf Bukhari for coup.
Meanwhile one of the expelled PDP leader has written a letter to Mehbooba. "It deeply pains me to inform you that after rounds of consultation with the cadre on ground, I am left with no option but to severe my ties and decades of association with the party. I had joined PDP under the visionary leadership of late Mufti (Mohammad Syed) Sahab, who provided people a viable political alternative to end the uncertainty hovering above the political landscape of J&K," reads the letter shot by Andrabi to Mehbooba Mufti, former chief minister and president PDP, who is under detention since August 5. |
