No Government Until BJP Assures on Mufti’s Vision: Mehbooba

She is not averse from forming the government but in doing so, wants her father’s wishes to be fulfilled.

PDP President Mehbooba Mufti (Photo: Reuters)

PDP president Mehbooba Mufti has told her party’s core group that she was not averse to forming the government in Jammu and Kashmir but this cannot happen unless she has assurances from the ally BJP that her late father’s vision would be fulfilled.

Presiding over the meeting of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leaders earlier today, Mehbooba Mufti, according to party sources, said she needed concrete assurances from the coalition partner Bharatiya Janata Party that the vision of late chief minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed about equitable development and peace in the state would be fulfilled.

The core group meeting was called today (on Sunday) to basically discuss party affairs like its membership campaign and reaching out to people. However, some leaders and legislators wanted to know Mehboobaji’s views on government formation. She told them she was not averse to government formation, but she won’t burn her fingers for nothing. She spoke about Mufti Sahib taking a big decision by deciding to form an alliance with the BJP but his dream remained largely unaddressed during his 10-month tenure  

<b>Party Leader</b>

According to him, Mehbooba Mufti said that she cannot decide to claim power in the state simply because that would make her the chief minister.

From Sunday’s closed-door PDP deliberations, it has become clear that the impasse over the government formation in the state will continue.

Also Read: J&K Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed Passes Away

Jammu and Kashmir was placed under the Governor’s rule on January 8 after Mufti Mohammad Sayeed passed away on January 7 in New Delhi after a brief illness, and Mehbooba Mufti did not step forward to stake claim to form the government.