Srinagar, 25 Dec 2014 : Jammu and Kashmir must have a BJP-led government, party general secretary Ram Madhav said Thursday, adding he was here to explore the various options.
Ram Madhav, who arrived in the afternoon, told reporters: “The BJP has the mandate to lead the government in Jammu and Kashmir. I am here to explore the options.”
He added that he was meeting representatives from different parties but did not provide details.
“We are open to discussions, and meetings can be had with the prime minister also in this regard,” he added, two days after the BJP emerged as the second largest group in a hung 87-member Jammu and Kashmir assembly.
The Peoples Democratic Party has 28 seats, the National Conference 15, the Congress 12 and the Bharatiya Janata Party 25 seats.
BJP sources told IANS that talks between the National Conference and the Bharatiya Janata Party had hit a major roadblock because of the BJP’s insistence on having a Hindu chief minister.
The National Conference, the sources said, was ready to support and even join a BJP-led coalition on the condition that the BJP gives up its demand for a Hindu chief minister.
At the same time, the PDP, while keeping its options open vis-a-vis the BJP, had sent feelers to Sajad Lone that he could be a deputy chief minister if he supported a PDP-Congress coalition, the sources said.
Sajad Lone’s People’s Conference has won two seats.
Another independent, Hakim Yaseen, has denied media reports that he had announced support for a BJP-led government.
Seven independents have also been elected to the assembly. A group of parties will need the support of 44 members to form a government.—-IANS
To be fair, looking @ the performance of over seven months @ the central level in New Delhi, followed by other successes @ the state levels, it
appears that BJP,and especially its “blue-eyed” newest kid on the block, have too many things, albeit all vegetarian but the confluence but deep fried, has caused them GI problems of indigestion, gastritis, heartburn, headache, big enough to make them non-optimally functional bordering on dysfunctional nuisance, chaos, unnecessary use of resources that does not belong to them as child’s allowance to play with “broom”, further pollute the waters of the two most important rivers of India in Allahabad, aka, Sangam, not Raj Kapoor’s movie but the confluence of Ganga and Jamuni, the state that sent them to Delhi, with lots of fanfare. If the 31% had any “deshbhakti” in their “organic salt” (personal honor and integrity), they would not have left for vacation but finished the plan they planned themselves, after dismantling the Planning Commission. I am sure, if Modi fails to lead by example ans correcting the course, the first year of his administration will end in more chaos, riots, demos, but no bread, no roof, no cleanliness. His admirers will get what they paid for, for the simple reason the money was not theirs, earned/saved through the sweat of their eye brows, but as free gifts. What a colossal waste of wealth. The same money, had it been used wisely, meticulously, as expected from a “shrewd” bania, and that too from the state of Gujarat. I hope and wish, “vaise din na ayen”, khana aye, paani aye, and may BJP be honored to distribute sweet again, as they did on their victory in May. Achhe din kab laoge, Modijee. Bhooke, nange, be rozs gar loag chup nsaheen rah sakte. Unko bhee usee ne banaya hai, jisne apko “do jore see,do hazaar se uper, rangeen kurton se bhar dia, aur duneeya kee sair kara raha hai. Abto kich karo, Bhaiji, main aapko adesh naheen de sakta, lekin apse nivedan karraha hoon. Lajja rakhlo. Baat samapt karo.