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J & K : Mehbooba Mufti to hold PDP's crucial LP meeting on Govt. formation

| | Mar 24, 2016, at 04:23 pm
Srinagar, Mar 24 (IBNS) After successful meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narender Modi, PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti will preside over the Legislative Party meeting of her party today to decide the “future course of action” regarding government formation in the state.

According to Party sources in Srinagar, the meeting is scheduled to begin at 4pm.. 

“All legislatures were telephonically invited for the crucial meeting regarding formation of the government in the state after the demise of Mufti Sayed” said senior PDP Leader. 

The BJP and PDP had agreed to the "agenda for alliance" when they joined hands last year to govern Jammu and Kashmir. That partnership was engineered by Mufti Mohammad Saeed, the then chief minister and Mehbooba's father, who died in early January this year. Mehbooba Mufti has since refused to take oath as chief minister till some key demands of her party are met by the Centre. 

 BJP and PDP had joined hands last year after no party got a majority in state elections. The PDP is the largest party with 28 seats - now 27 following Sayeed’s death - in the 87-member house. The BJP is second with 25 seats. 

BJP in Jammu and Kashmir is quite happy with PDP’s move after Mehbooba’s meeting with Prime Minister. 

“We are happy that government will start work soon after the death of mufti, and hiccups between PDP and BJP over some new demands which was put fourth by the party leader,” said BJP leader. 

He further said, “We are in Kashmir and it is our duty to work as per “Agenda of Alliance” in the state.

 
 
 
 
 
(Reporting by Saleem Iqbal Qadri)

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