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| BJP Breaks Alliance With Mehbooba Mufti’s PDP In Jammu And Kashmir | | | |  New Delhi 19 June (agencies)
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday pulled out of its ruling alliance with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Jammu and Kashmir, saying that it was untenable for them to continue in the government.
Reports said the decision was taken by the BJP party president Amit Shah after meeting with the party’s ministers in the state.
"It has become untenable for the BJP to continue in the alliance government," Bharatiya Janata Party leader Ram Madhav told the media in New Delhi.
"We had to respect the mandate of the people. If we would not have formed govt at that time, Governor's rule or Presidential rule would have been imposed in the Valley. We had an alliance with them just for the mandate that was given by people," he said.
"Keeping in mind larger interest of India's security and integrity, fact is that J&K is an integral part of India, in order to bring control over the situation prevailing in the state we have decided that the reigns of power in the state be handed over to the Governor."
He said the Centre did everything for the Valley. "We've tried to put a full-stop to the ceasefire violations by Pakistan. PDP has not been successful in fulfilling its promises. Our leaders have been facing a lot of difficulties from PDP in developmental works in Jammu & Ladakh," he claimed.
"Even if Governor rule is imposed in the Jammu & Kashmir, our efforts to fight terrorism will continue," he said.
PDP and the BJP had formed the alliance in 2015 after they emerged as the biggest parties with 28 and 25 seats respectively. Governor's rule is now likely to be imposed on the state. While furnished the details by other local based news agency report said that he BJP has pulled out of its alliance with the PDP or People’s Democratic Party in Jammu and Kashmir, which leaves the state under President’s rule.
The BJP had 25 lawmakers and the PDP had 28 in the state assembly, where the majority mark is 45.
The decision to withdraw support came after BJP president Amit Shah met with the party’s lawmakers from Jammu and Kashmir in Delhi.
The rift between the two parties widened following the central government’s decision to resume anti-terror operations in the state after Ramzan.
The PDP of Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti asserted that the Centre needed to reach out to the separatists. The Centre argued that the separatists lost an opportunity as they did not take a cue from civil society, the sources said.
The central government’s special peace initiative in the Kashmir Valley — suspension of cordon and search operations — was taken to provide relief to the people during the holy month of Ramzan.
But data showed the terror activities had more than doubled in this period
On the eve of Eid, senior journalist Shujaat Bukhari was shot dead by terrorists in Srinagar. With it, any faint hope of an extension of the ceasefire ended.
In a series of tweets on Sunday, Union home minister Rajnath Singh announced that security forces have been directed to resume operations.
The ceasefire was Mehbooba Mufti’s idea and the state BJP unit had fought it tooth and nail.
The alliance between the BJP and the PDP, parties with widely divergent views, had been shaky since the beginning.
The rift showed from time to time — over PDP’s promises of talks with separatists, the proposal to remove the AFSPA (the Armed Forces’ Special Powers Act under which grants special powers to the army in insurgency-hit areas), and even the rollout of the government’s flagship Goods and Services Tax.
In March, concerns over the future of the alliance surfaced after the PDP sacked its minister Haseeb Drabu. Since the death of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, the father of Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, Mr Drabu had been a key interlocutor between the two parties.
On that occasion too, the top BJP leadership had summoned the state leaders to discuss possible repercussions on the alliance.
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