What to Expect from BJP-PDP Government in Kashmir? By Deepak Parvatiyar February 25, 2015 On 24 February, after the Jammu and Kashmir People’s Democratic Party chief Mehbooba Mufti called on him in New Delhi for a 45-minute-long meeting, the Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah announced that the two had agreed to form a coalition government in Srinagar. Reports suggest that Mehbooba’s father and PDP patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed is likely to swear in as the next chief minister of the state on 1 March. (Sayeed had earlier headed a coalition government with Congress for three years from 2002). With Shah’s announcement, the suspense following the two-month-old deadlock over government formation in the troubled northern-most state is over. The state has been placed under Governor’s rule since 8 January since no single party or group of political parties had come forward to stake claim to power after the fractured mandate for the 87-member state legislative ass
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