Arun Jaitley holds key meet amid political crisis in JK Srinagar: The BJPs newly elected law-makers in Jammu and Kashmir are meeting now to decide on their presumptive Chief Minister. With 25 of the states 87 assembly seats, must now decide whether to partner with a regional party and attempt to form the government, or serve as the Opposition. Arun Jaitley and Ram Madhav have been deputed by the BJP from Delhi to supervise todays proceedings. Reports said that that the party is in touch with Omar Abdullah, with 15 seats for his National Conference, he is a viable option for an ally. Abdullah has said so far that he is content to wait and watch the moves made by other parties; he has refused to reject the BJP as a political spouse, said that though it is 99% no, he is leaving a crack open. Amid talk of his meeting with BJP leaders, Abdullah tweeted today that he has not delayed his plans to travel to London. The party that won the most seats is Mufti Mohammed Sayeeds Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), a group whose views on several key issues are the diametric opposite of the BJPs. A sustainable working relationship could be hard to engineer.
Posted on: Thu, 25 Dec 2014 09:14:39 +0000
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