Peoples Democratic Party’s senior leader and Member Parliament Tariq Hamid Karra’s “resentment and unhappiness” with his party came to fore on Tuesday as he was conspicuously absent in the PDP-BJP government’s coordination committee meeting, of which he is a member, citing “personal engagements” as a reason for not attending the important meet.
The PDP-BJP government’s Coordination Committee met today at its chairman and Deputy Chief Minister Dr Nirmal Singh’s official residence after more than five months. While all members from both BJP and PDP side attended the meeting, Karra once again preferred not to attend. Pertinently, Karra has not taken part in any meeting of the coordination committee till now.
“I was busy with some of my personal engagements so could not attended the CC meeting,” Karra told KNS over phone from New Delhi.
Besides Nirmal Singh and Karra, a 10-member coordination committee comprises of PDP President Mehbooba Mufti, BJP state chief Jugal Kishore, Muzaffar Hussain Beigh, Shamsher Singh, (all MPs), Choudhary Lal Singh, Abdul Rehman Veeri, Chewing Dorjee and Naeem Akhter (ministers in the PDP-BJP coalition government).
Sources, however, said that reason behind Karra skipping the CC meetings was not any personal engagements but his “resentment and unhappiness” with the party.Click Here To Follow Our WhatsApp ChannelIn past Karra has expressed his unhappiness over the functioning of PDP-BJP coalition government and the BJP’s “anti-Kashmir approach”.
Pertinently, in a recent press statements Karra had said that the ‘Agenda of Alliance’ between PDP and BJP has been just confined to paper and “right from the day one there has been no consonance between the functioning of the coalition government”. He had also said that his party’s coalition with BJP was against the mood and conscience of the people of Kashmir and had urged PDP patron and Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed to pull out from the coalition government as “BJP-led central government in New Delhi was adopting an anti-Kashmir stand”.
“If the Government of India continues with same prejudiced approach towards Kashmir, PDP should rethink on its relation with the BJP as continuation in the coalition seems to be doing more damage to both Kashmiris and the party,” Karra had said in a statement.
He had also criticized the flood-relief package announced by the Government of India to J&K. KNS