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‘Mehbooba should quit if govt fails to fulfil promise’
SRINAGAR: Chief minister Mehbooba Mufti should resign if the agenda of alliance, the guiding framework of Jammu and Kashmir’s ruling coalition, is not implemented
SRINAGAR: Chief minister Mehbooba Mufti should resign if the agenda of alliance, the guiding framework of Jammu and Kashmir’s ruling coalition, is not implemented within a time-frame, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) parliamentarian Muzaffar Hussain Baig suggested on Thursday.
His comments came after a row that he had asked Mufti to resign for her “failure to implement the agendaof alliance”. He said he was misquoted.
“Those who drafted the agenda should decide on a time schedule for its implementation and if it does not get implemented within that time frame, the only honourable way for Mehbooba would be to resign,” Baig said on Thursday.
The senior PDP leader, however, clarified “things will not get implemented in a week, but will take time”.
The agenda was worked out after a fractured mandate in the 2014 polls forced the PDP and BJP to team up, despite ideological differences, and form a government in the strife-torn state.
Baig,a former deputy chief minister, said circumstances didn’t allow the PDP-BJP government enough time to implement the agenda. “For six months, the BJP was busy with elections in other states, then Mufti sahib’s health deteriorated and he passed away. Mehbooba was unsure about its implementation and so took time to form the government,” he said.
But “within two months of coming to power, Burhan Wani’s killing happened, leaving no room for that work”.
