NEW DELHI: Jammu and Kashmir will soon have a government and “very concrete and very positive efforts” are being made towards that, a top leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said today.
Party General Secretary Ram Madhav also hinted that talks with PDP on forming a coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir were in progress
Stressing that people there had voted for a government and not instability, Madhav said, “We are shortly going to have a good government in Jammu and Kashmir.”
He was speaking here at an event organised by ‘India Today’ group.
Asked if PDP, which has emerged as the single largest party in J-K Assembly with 28 seats, was on board, he said without naming the party that “there are very concrete and very positive efforts which are being made towards forming a good government in state”.
He also answered in the affirmative when asked whether progress has been made in talks with allies. “Yes, definitely”, he said.
Madhav, who was the party’s in-charge for polls in the state and has been fronting talks with prospective allies, said the mandate was for BJP to be in government even as he parried a query as to whether it will be the senior or junior partner in any possible alliance saying that conditions cannot be laid while holding talks.
There have been reports that PDP and BJP, which emerged as the second largest party with 25 seats in the 87-member J-K Assembly, have made progress in their talks.
The state’s electorate had returned a hung verdict in the December polls with no party managing to reach the majority mark of 44 seats needed to form the government there.
Meanwhile sources said that the much awaited meeting between PDP patron Mufti Mohammed Sayeed and Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to take place after the Republic Day celebrations.
Going by recent political developments, a lot of ground work has been completed by the negotiators representing both the parties. During the meeting between Mufti and Modi the remaining issues would be sorted out amicably to pave way for the alliance government in the state.
According to senior leaders belonging to both the parties, during informal discussions, the negotiators sorted out the contentious issues and also held discussions ahead of finalising Common Minimum Programme (CMP).
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