Live Updates: BJP-PDP alliance ends in J&K; CM Mehbooba Mufti resigns
Live updates on the political developments in Jammu and Kashmir as BJP pulls out of its alliance with Mehbooba Mufti’s PDP
19 Jun 2018, 8:38 PM
J&K Governor NN Vohra forwards report to President Ram Nath Kovind for imposition of Governor's rule in J-K, says Raj Bhawan spokesperson
19 Jun 2018, 8:18 PM
Congress leader and former Home Minister P Chidambaram: "Hope that muscular, militaristic policy does not come back under guise of governor's rule in J&K"
19 Jun 2018, 7:43 PM
Senior advocate Prashant Bhushan: "Add "Nation in danger because of Kashmiri terrorists" to the list of strategies to win 2019! He runs the govts in Centre & States, but Nation & Hindus are in danger as never before!"
19 Jun 2018, 7:17 PM
India News journalist says "sources" suggest "decision to separate from PDP was taken in Prime Minister Modi's meeting with RSS leaders"
19 Jun 2018, 7:00 PM
Congress President Rahul Gandhi: "The opportunistic BJP-PDP alliance set fire to J&K, killing many innocent people including our brave soldiers. The damage will continue under President’s rule. Incompetence, arrogance and hatred always fails"
19 Jun 2018, 6:58 PM
Government possibilities in J&K | Scenario 5: President's Rule, Election along with Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh
BJP indicated in its press conference after pulling out of the alliance with PDP that President's rule is a better option for the state. In such a situation, the Centre may try for President's rule in Jammu and Kashmir. Fresh elections in Jammu and Kashmir could be announced along with assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Mizoram later this year.
19 Jun 2018, 6:58 PM
Government possibilities in J&K | Scenario 4: National Conference-BJP coalition
The National Conference could also combine with the BJP. The National Conference has 15 seats while the BJP has 25 seats. In this case, the coalition will need only 4 seats more for the majority, which can be obtained from independents and others.
19 Jun 2018, 6:56 PM
Government possibilities in J&K | Scenario 3: PDP-National Conference Coalition
If PDP and National Conference combine, with Congress support from outside, then a majority government can be formed. PDP’s 28 MLAs and National Conference’s 15 MLAs will be just two short of the majority mark. They could also get the support of the CPI(M) MLA and one Independent, or any other party.
19 Jun 2018, 6:55 PM
Government possibilities in J&K | Scenario 2: PDP support to National Conference-Congress alliance
National Conference and Congress could combine and PDP can support them from outside. The National Conference has 15 seats and the Congress has 12 seats. In this scenario, they need support of at least 17 legislators to form a government. PDP has 28.
19 Jun 2018, 6:54 PM
Government possibilities in J&K | Scenario 1: PDP-Congress alliance
PDP and Congress form the government together and get support from three independents and CPI(M). The PDP has 28 seats and the Congress has 12 seats. They will need another 4 seats for a simple majority, which can be managed with the support of one CPI(M) MLA and three independents.
19 Jun 2018, 6:53 PM
Current status of parties in J&K assembly
19 Jun 2018, 6:49 PM
Read: After Modi-Mehbooba break up, five possible political scenarios in J&K
With the BJP-PDP alliance government coming to an end with a full two years to go for the J&K assembly, here are five possible scenarios for governing the state
19 Jun 2018, 6:12 PM
Mohan Guruswamy: "J&K is in a mess due to the meddling and brains of fellows like Ram Madhav. These RSS fellows will destroy INDIA before they go"
19 Jun 2018, 5:48 PM
Read: Omar Abdullah: Offer of support expired the day PDP allied with BJP
National Conference leader and former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Omar Abdullah said that NC would not extend support to Mehbooba Mufti’s People’s Democratic Party to save the government
19 Jun 2018, 5:47 PM
National Conference leader Omar Abdullah: "How I wish she had left with her head held high and her dignity intact! She was J&K’s CM, not of the BJP-PDP"
19 Jun 2018, 5:09 PM
Former J&K CM Mehbooba Mufti: "We stayed true to our agenda over the past 3-4 years"
19 Jun 2018, 5:09 PM
Former J&K CM Mehbooba Mufti: "PDP does not want to enter into any other alliance. We did not enter into alliance with BJP merely for power"
19 Jun 2018, 5:07 PM
Former J&K CM Mehbooba Mufti: "I am not at all shocked. We were not in this coalition merely for power"
19 Jun 2018, 5:06 PM
Former J&K CM Mehbooba Mufti: "PDP made all efforts and will continue to make efforts towards dialogue as solution for peace"
19 Jun 2018, 5:06 PM
Former J&K CM Mehbooba Mufti: "PDP made every effort to keep Jammu and Kashmir united"
19 Jun 2018, 5:05 PM
Former J&K CM Mehbooba Mufti: "PDP policy is that talks should happen with Pakistan, dialogue should happen with people of J&K"
19 Jun 2018, 5:05 PM
Former J&K CM Mehbooba Mufti: "J&K not an enemy territory; muscular policy doesn't work"
19 Jun 2018, 5:04 PM
Former J&K Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti is addressing a press conference in Srinagar
19 Jun 2018, 5:03 PM
Shiv Sena: "The BJP-PDP had cut a deal to gain power. Our soldiers had to pay a big price for this. The incidents of our soldiers' martyrdom had gone up ever since the combine formed the government"
19 Jun 2018, 5:02 PM
Shiv Sena: "BJP's decision to part ways with alliance partner PDP in Jammu and Kashmir was taken to avoid "uneasy questions" over violence in the state ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls"
19 Jun 2018, 5:00 PM
Former J&K CM and former Union Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad speaks to the media on the BJP withdrawing support to the PDP in Jammu & Kashmir
19 Jun 2018, 4:55 PM
Left parties: Coming together of BJP, PDP just to grab power was opportunistic
The Left parties have said that the coming together of the BJP and the PDP after the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly polls in 2014 to form the government was itself "opportunistic". Soon after the BJP decided to pull out of the ruling alliance with the PDP in Jammu and Kashmir, the Left parties voiced their concern over the political and law-and-order situation in the state and said the Centre should share its assessment of the present situation with all political parties
19 Jun 2018, 4:37 PM
National Conference leader Omar Abdullah: "Wish Mehbooba Mufti had gone with some dignity rather than having rug pulled under her feet"
19 Jun 2018, 4:36 PM
National Conference leader Omar Abdullah: "We did not have mandate in 2014 and we do not have mandate in 2018"
19 Jun 2018, 4:36 PM
National Conference leader Omar Abdullah not shocked by BJP decision but timing has taken him by surprise
19 Jun 2018, 4:35 PM
National Conference leader Omar Abdullah says his party favours governor's rule and early elections in Jammu and Kashmir
19 Jun 2018, 4:15 PM
RJD leader Tejwashi Yadav: "After running and ruining J&K for 3.4 years the self claimed nationalist & opportunist BJP suddenly realised they are not capable of controlling terrorism, violence and its promises so they run away"
19 Jun 2018, 4:14 PM
Delhi CM and AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal: "After ruining it, BJP pulls out of Kashmir"
19 Jun 2018, 4:13 PM
Congress Party says "An opportunistic alliance has come to an end. BJP is running away after destroying the peace in the valley"
19 Jun 2018, 4:09 PM
Senior advocate Prashant Bhushan: "After destroying Kashmir and having brought it to the point of no return, BJP slams it's own coalition govt, walks out and asks for Governor's rule!"
19 Jun 2018, 4:08 PM
Nationalist Congress Party spokesperson Nawab Malik says "The central government and PDP-BJP alliance failed to maintain peace in Kashmir. BJP has decided to step out of power in J&K to save itself but BJP can't be liberated from responsibility for situation in Kashmir"
19 Jun 2018, 4:03 PM
Congress leader Partap Singh Bajwa says "After demonetisation, BJP claimed it had broken backbone of terrorism, now BJP says we decided to pull out of alliance because terrorism has increased in valley"
19 Jun 2018, 4:02 PM
Rashtriya Janata Dal says the BJP's destruction of the J&K alliance government shows that its only agenda in elections will be of religious frenzy, hatred and communalism
19 Jun 2018, 3:57 PM
Former J&K Chief Minister and JK National Conference leader Omar Abdullah has met J&K Governor NN Vohra in Srinagar
19 Jun 2018, 3:41 PM
MK Venu, founding editor of The Wire says "For the first time in history the assassination of a senior journalist has been cited as trigger for imposing Governor's rule"
19 Jun 2018, 3:34 PM
Congress rules out alliance with PDP in Jammu and Kashmir
19 Jun 2018, 3:33 PM
Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad: "The BJP had a big mandate at national level but they were policy less when it came to Jammu and Kashmir"
19 Jun 2018, 3:33 PM
Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad: "BJP was more responsible for the situation in J&K than the PDP and the national party carried more weight in the coalition"
19 Jun 2018, 3:29 PM
BJP leader Ram Madhav: "Even a week later after the killing of Shujaat Bukhari, we are nowhere near catching the culprits. The basic human rights in the valley, the right to free speech are under threat. The law and order situation is deteriorating and the terrorism activities are growing"
19 Jun 2018, 3:26 PM
Shiv Sena: "BJP-PDP alliance was anti-national and unnatural"; reports Indian Express
19 Jun 2018, 3:25 PM
Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad: "We have been proven right that formation of the PDP-BJP government was a Himalayan blunder"; reports Indian Express
19 Jun 2018, 3:24 PM
BJP leader Ram Madhav: We have been successful in battling terrorism in the state. But political parties have a responsibility to prevent radicalisation and develop the state. We didn't see that"; reports Indian Express
19 Jun 2018, 3:23 PM
BJP leader Ram Madhav: After the killing of Shujaat Bukhari in broad daylight in Srinagar, there was no question of suspending anti-terror operations; reports Indian Express
19 Jun 2018, 3:20 PM
Barkha Dutt: Governor's Rule now official in Jammu and Kashmir; Mehbooba Mufti must wish she had stepped down earlier on issues of ideological mismatch instead of being ousted by her alliance partner
19 Jun 2018, 3:19 PM
Former SC judge Markandey Katju says "How does it matter whether there is Presidents rule or PDP-BJP rule in Kashmir? There r only 2 relevant people in Kashmir, i.e. those with guns, viz Indian security forces & Kashmiri militants"
19 Jun 2018, 3:18 PM
Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad says "That question does not arise" (on forming alliance with PDP)
19 Jun 2018, 3:17 PM
Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad: "Whatever has happened is good. People of J&K will get some relief. They (BJP) ruined Kashmir & have now pulled out, maximum number of civilian & army men died during these 3 years"
19 Jun 2018, 3:16 PM
Breaking: J&K CM Mehbooba Mufti submits her resignation to Governor, ANI reports PDP leader Naeem Akhtar as saying
19 Jun 2018, 3:15 PM
"Tried our best to run the govt with BJP. This is a surprise for us because we did not have any indication about their decision", says PDP spokesperson Rafi Ahmad Mir
19 Jun 2018, 3:12 PM
J&K assembly election results showed JKNC and Congress combined would wipe out PDP in Lok Sabha and BJP would lose Ladakh; Has Opposition unity contributed to ending the alliance, as BJP seeks to fire up its base and regain lost ground?
19 Jun 2018, 3:11 PM
In 2014, BJP (3) and PDP (3) won all J&K's Lok Sabha seats
19 Jun 2018, 3:09 PM
PDP has 28 seats, JKNC 15 and Congress 12 in the J&K assembly; CPI(M) has 1
19 Jun 2018, 3:08 PM
What next in J&K? Will Congress, JKNC support PDP from outside? Will PDP support JKNC-Congress? Else, President's Rule?
19 Jun 2018, 2:51 PM
Senior journalist Barkha Dutt says alliance needed to end
19 Jun 2018, 2:49 PM
Republic TV says decision by BJP to end alliance with PDP taken by BJP President Amit Shah hours after meeting NSA Ajit Doval; however BJP leader Ram Madhav says PM Modi took decision
19 Jun 2018, 2:47 PM
And so it has come to pass, says former J&K Chief Minister and JKNC leader Omar Abdullah
19 Jun 2018, 2:46 PM
BJP leader Ram Madhav: Even if Governor rule is imposed in the Jammu & Kashmir, our efforts to fight terrorism will continue; reports ANI News
19 Jun 2018, 2:45 PM
State BJP welcomes decision, says Deputy CM Kavinder Gupta. Resignations sent to CM and government
19 Jun 2018, 2:45 PM
BJP leader Ram Madhav: We have done a lot of good work for Jammu and Ladakh and entire state. Not worried about losing political ground
19 Jun 2018, 2:45 PM
Ram Madhav: The security scenario in Kashmir Valley and growing sense of discrimination in rest of two regions (Jammu and Ladakh) forced the central party leadership to end the alliance.
19 Jun 2018, 2:42 PM
Ram Madhav: BJP joined hands with PDP to form Govt in J&K with some goals, it has become untenable for BJP to continue with PDP in J&K. Hence, PM Narendra Modi decides to break the alliance; reports CNN News19
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