A day after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) announced that it was pulling out of the alliance with the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Jammu and Kashmir, the party’s senior leader Ram Madhav said that the BJP had reached the decision to focus on the "larger national interest" over "local political interest."
In an interview with CNN-News18, Madhav, BJP’s Jammu and Kashmir in-charge, talked about what led to the party’s decision of pulling the plug on the alliance that was once termed "historic".
Madhav, who was instrumental in forming the alliance in 2015, told the news channel that Jammu and Kashmir needs Governor’s rule "for some period atleast."