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The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday attributed the continued uncertainty over the government formation in Jammu and Kashmir to ‘adamancy’ of its ally People’s Democratic Party while asserting that it is committed to the common minimum programme of the coalition.
The BJP is sticking to the 'Agenda of Alliance' but ‘adamancy is from the PDP’, state party unit's general secretary (organisation) Ashok Koul said.
"From our side, there is a positivity and we feel the same from the other side. There is no uncertainty from the BJP side," he said.
His comments came just hours ahead of the party leaders’ meeting with Governor N N Vohra, who had asked the two coalition partners to clarify their stand on government formation.
The core group of the state BJP will meet in Jammu before the meeting the governor in the evening.
The core group met on Monday also after which the BJP’s three-member panel rushed to New Delhi and held consultations with the central leadership on the government formation after tough talk by PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on carrying forward the alliance.
The political crisis in Jammu and Kashmir arose after the demise of then chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed January 7.
Sayeed’s daughter and PDP chief Mehbooba said on Sunday that before taking a call on continuing the alliance, she wants to ‘reassess’ whether the Narendra Modi government would take substantive steps within a ‘set time-frame’ to address the ‘core’ political and economic issues of the state.
After Core group meeting on Monday in Jammu, state BJP chief Sat Sharma told reporters that there was ‘no concrete’ demand or condition from the PDP in writing.
The governor has written to leaders of the two parties, asking them to clarify their stand on government formation by Tuesday.
The PDP, with 27 MLAs in the 87-member assembly, and the BJP with 25 legislators, ran a coalition government headed by Sayeed for 10 months before his demise on January 7.