SRINAGAR: As the deadlock over government formation continues in Jammu and Kashmir, Bharatiya Janta Party (BJ) Thursday asserted that they were in talks with other parties and new government will be formed soon.
“Channels for discussion are open and the party’s central leadership has been authorised to take a final call over the government formation,” BJP state president Jugal Kishore Sharma told reporters in Rajouri today.
However, the MP from Jammu-Poonch constituency refused to name the party with which BJP was in consultation over the formation of the government.
He said, “I assure you that the people of the state will soon get a strong and stable government.”
Earlier BJPs national spokesperson Nalin S Kohli said over phone from New Delhi that the party was keen to form the government in Jammu and Kashmir to fulfill its promises. BJP wants to form the government and fulfil the promises of the development that the party made to the people of Jammu & Kashmir. People ignored separatists and even militants just for sake of government formation, but the fact is that BJP alone cannot form the government without the participation of some other party. I can tell you that our leadership is working hard to form a stable government in Jammu and Kashmir, he said
He claimed that Government without BJP in Jammu and Kashmir will be a betrayal with the people of Jammu & Kashmir. BJP has won the maximum number of popular votes and without the participation of BJP in it, will be a travesty of the mandate given by the people of Jammu & Kashmir, he said.
PDP has emerged as the largest party with 28 seats in the 87-member Assembly but way short of a majority. BJP is the second largest party with 25 members.
It is noteworthy that the statement comes in the backdrop of senior Peoples Democratic Party leader saying that only BJP and PDP can form a stable government in Jammu and Kashmir. (KNS)
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