SRINAGAR: In the first signs of ending the 9-day impasse over government formation in Jammu and Kashmir, PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti has called a meeting of her party’s extended core group here tomorrow which is expected to deliberate on the future course of action and ties with BJP.
“The PDP president has convened a meeting of the extended core group of the party tomorrow at her residence in the afternoon,” a senior PDP leader told a news agency.
He said those invited to the meeting include the party MPs, former ministers, and the senior party office bearers.
This will be the first formal party meeting to be chaired by Mehbooba since the death of her father and then Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed on January 7.
As the PDP and the BJP, which ruled the state in an alliance from March 1 till Sayeed’s death, did not stake claim for fresh government formation, the state was put under Governor’s rule on January 8.
The BJP has maintained that the PDP has to make the first move by electing its legislature party leader before they can extend support to the regional party for government formation in the state.
The PDP, on its part, has said it will review the implementation of its Agenda of Alliance with the BJP during the 10-month coalition before deciding on its next course of action.
According to a PDP insider, the decision to form the government wouldnt surprise anyone as there wouldnt be any change in the set up as left behind by the deceased PDP patriarch, Mufti Muhammad Sayeed who passed away on January 7.
Earlier in the beginning of the week, PDP spokesperson Dr Mehboob Baig had said that the terms of alliance already worked out the BJP would continue as such. Baig had ruled out that PDP would walk away from the coalition set up.
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