The alliance partners PDP and BJP are not revealing their cards on the formation of new Government in Jammu & Kashmir but the National Conference (NC) is eagerly wishing them to jump the gun or quit the race for fresh elections in the embattled State.
Former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is using every forum to criticise the two major parties in the J&K Assembly for “testing the people’s patience” by staying away from Government formation. From a barrage of twitter messages to writing an open letter to PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti, Omar Abdullah attempted several occasions to blame the alliance partners for perpetuating Governor’s rule in the State.
The Governor’s rule was imposed in J&K on January 8, a day after the demise of former Chief Minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed.
“I ran the Government on 28 MlAs for six years, and did whatever I could do for the development of the State. Today, PDP has 28 MlAs and see what the situation is. Governor Rule has been imposed twice in a year. PDP speaks in two voices,” Omar told a group of his party workers at Beerwa in central district Budgam. Abdullah represents the constituency in J&K Assembly.
“First they say alliance (with BJP) will continue. PDP said that Agenda of Alliance will be reviewed, and then they said that the Agenda of Alliance is sacred and will take forward. If that is the case, I request Mehbooba ji to form the Government. If your father (Mufti Mohammad Sayeed) could not reach to the people, then you do that. NC will not create any hurdles for you to form the Government,” Omar said.
Omar said that if fresh elections are held in the State, NC will win majority seats and will form the Government on its own.
“And if you don’t have to form the Government, then dissolve the Assembly so that fresh elections are held and let people decide again. But PDP will not ask for fresh elections because the party is afraid of going before the people. And the party knows that if they ask for fresh elections, NC will win a complete majority seats and form the Government,” he said.
The former Chief Minister said that Mehbooba Mufti is using his late father’s strategy to make people wait for the Government.
“People will not wait longer. Mufti Sahab made people to wait for the Government last year, but then the situation was different due to floods as people were waiting for flood relief. But when he formed the alliance with BJP, people did not oppose the alliance much as they were suffering due to absence of the Government,” Omar said.