SRINAGAR: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP are making serious efforts to induct PDP MP Mehbooba Mufti in the council of ministers in an effort to enlarge their base ahead of the crucial budget session beginning February 23.
With Jammu and Kashmir’s People’s Democratic Party more or less on board now that the prospect of putting in place a BJP-PDP government looks real, the government is looking to shore up its numbers in Parliament and cushion itself numerically and politically against the Opposition that is set to go for the jugular in the budget session.
The BJP is roping in PDP MP Mehbooba Mufti into Modi cabinet. TRS MP Kavitha Kalvakuntla too is a prospective inductee. Both are daughters of the respective founders of their parties. Mufti Mohammed Sayeed is Mehbooba’s father while Kavitha is the daughter of TRS chief and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao.
The TRS has 11 MPs and the PDP three in the Lok Sabha and the cabinet expansion to accommodate members of the new allies is likely to be when the budget session breaks in between this March.
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