Jammu Kashmir: BJP tries to hook power hungry PDP to launch a fragile cabinet!

-Dr. Abdul Ruff

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As Delhi poll date is nearing, the BJP is going all out to get a majority by hook or crooks so that it could overcome the current AAPphobia and for that BJP must show to Delhiites that it could muster a majority in Kashmir. One important item now on BJP chess board is to form a BJP-PDP government in Kashmir to claim a visual victory for BJP.

BJP is clearly trying to woo the power hungry PDP to forge a  joint government even if BJP does not get CM or deputy CM- the goal of RSS-BJP combine in Jammu Kashmir.( and even  Congress party which created  Deputy CM post for Hindu last time but he was badly defeated in the poll is a different story)

Already, BJP and PDP leaders have met the impatiently waiting governor N.N. Vohra in this regards. With a BJP minister in PMO, Jitendra Singh rushed to Jammu, possibilities of an alliance government in the state of Jammu and Kashmir has suddenly gained momentum. The BJP said that Jitendra, who is from  Jammu region of  the state of Jammu Kashmir, is one of the strongest party leaders from the Jammu region and maybe aspiring for a big post in Kashmir government, if not CM or Deputy CM.

A senior BJP leader claimed that the way things have started unfolding recently with close door meetings, it appears that the PDP and BJP have clinched a deal and are heading for the forming of a coalition government.

Earlier, leaders of both the parties apprised Governor NN Vohra separately about progress in their talks for the formation of an alliance government in the state. Both the parties have also reportedly prepared for a tie-up in the coming Rajya Sabha elections as well.

Under  instructions form New Delhi,  the JK governor has been pushing  the PDP d leader Mufti to clinch a deal with BJP and form a govnemnt at the earliest so that PM Modi can use it for Delhi poll as BJP’s success story. PDP legislator Haseeb Drabu, the interlocutor with the BJP on talks for government formation, met the governor who earlier received a BJP delegation headed by party’s general secretary Ram Madhav, the BJP incharge in the state.

Significantly after the meetings, Raj Bhavan issued a statement which said Drabu apprised the governor “about the realizations which have emerged from the PDP-BJP parleys on government formation which have been continuing for the past about a month and the broad contours of the matters being finalized in the coming days.”

In another release, the Raj Bhavan said during the one-hour long meeting Madhav informed the governor “about the present status of the ongoing BJP-PDP discussions on the formation of an elected government.” He was accompanied by state BJP President Jugal Kishore and party MLA Nirmal Singh.

Indian government, BJP and JK governor are making strenuous efforts to put in place a manufactured government in JK, albeit fragile to withstand pressures until the Delhi poll. The JK mandate was highly-fractured, with PDP having emerged as the single largest party with 28 MLAs followed closely by BJP with 25. National Conference ended up with a tally of 15 while Congress got 12 seats. In the 87-member House, two seats each went to People’s Conference and Jammu & Kashmir People Democratic Front (Secular), three independents and one to a CPM member.

Indian parties like Congress and BJP and Kashmir parties like PDP and NC are playing a joint political exercise to fool and keep the public at a distance. 

Both PDP and NC are ready to betray Kashmiri Muslims while RSS and BJP are dreaming for a Hindutva Kashmir to cause more  deaths and secret grave yards in Kashmir valley known as a paradise on earth.  

It appears, Indian government and these parties are a bit concerned about the probability of the separatist parties also participating in the poll, if conducted sooner or later.  This perhaps makes India to push for a government at PDP’s terms.  But the separatist parties would not contest the JK polls independently or with other parties unless asked by the Pakistani government is a known fact.

However, BJP does not want to take chances now.