People’s Democratic Party that emerges as a single largest party by winning 28 seats out of 87 in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly is short of 16 seats to form the government. The second largest party BJP that bags 23 seats has tried to strike a deal with it, but drops the idea as the conditions laid by PDP is unacceptable to it.

 

Then, PDP welcomes National Conference led by outgoing CM Omar Abdullah and the Congress party to support her party. PDP Chief Mehbooba Mufti met the Governor NN Vohra on Wednesday claiming that her party has total 55 MLAs support.

 

But, after coming out of the Rajbhavan, she is all praise to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, instead of briefing the media about her plans for government formation.

 

She said “Vajpayee had started dialogue with Hurriyat. He had started dialogue with Pakistan. We got generous economic package. UPA continued it for some time but later stopped it. Modi government also got the responsibility to carry forward the development activities as he promised to the people during elections campaigning. But, development will be there as long as peace prevails.”

 

If she really has 55 MLAs support to her party, she need not to praise Vajpayee ruling and Modi’s support for developing the state. So, she might be playing a mind game to woo the BJP to get its support to her party.

 

The issues that she mentioned in her statement like dialogue with Kashmiri separatists Hurriyat leaders, Economic package, Development, maintaining peace in the valley sounds conditions for having a deal with BJP.

 

She may be expecting the BJP to resume a dialogue with Hurriyat leaders, withdraw Armed forces from Kashmir Valley and grant special economic package to the state to share power with her party. But, BJP is averse all her conditions.

 

She knew that sailing with political rivals-the Congress and National Conference for a long time is highly impossible. Though she runs the show, they both may control her sitting in the back seat. Knowing this, she wants to share power with the BJP to form a stable government, but wants BJP to agree to her terms and conditions. Perhaps, that is what she is speaking about now.

 

But, BJP also can take the support of its old ally National Conference and form government in the state. He asks Deputy CM Post, a central minister post and a Rajya Sabha seat to his party. So, Omar’s conditions are comparatively much better than her conditions and BJP may think about taking his party support than supporting PDP.