No phone call, no text, not even an e-mail. The Bharatiya Janata Party communicated its decision to dump the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Jammu and Kashmir in a news conference on the afternoon of Tuesday, 19 June.
“It is untenable for BJP to continue its alliance with PDP in Jammu & Kashmir... Despite all assistance from the Centre, the PDP has not been successful in fulfilling its promises to the people of Jammu and Kashmir”, announced BJP’s J&K state in-charge Ram Madhav.
Outwitted and out of options, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti resigned, ringing the death knell for the alliance that was deemed “anti-national”, even “unholy” by the Opposition.
Here’s separating the political rhetoric from the facts: