Srinagar, Mar 25 (KNS): The PDP and BJP Friday evening resolved the last hitches as the latter was demanding three portfolios including Tourism, Finance and Planning and MoS Home, and now all the decks have been cleared for the government formation.
Both the leaders will be meeting Governor N N Vohra tomorrow afternoon to fix date for swearing-in, which will likely take place by the end of this month.
Sources said that PDP’s alliance partner, BJP, was demanding three portfolios, but PDP objected to the new demand, telling them that BJP has committed to go by the agenda of alliance and the portfolios that been already distributed between the two partners when former chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed headed the alliance.
The final hitch was resolved by PDP leaders Abdul Rehman Veeri and Haseeb Drabu at the residence of BJP leader Bali Baghat, where BJP was represented by state president Sat Pal Sharma, MP Jugal Kishore.Click Here To Follow Our WhatsApp Channel
Sources said the new hitches put by BJP prompted the alliance partners to request the Governor to reschedule their meeting.
“Now the meeting will be held with Governor N N Vohra at 3pm tomorrow in which PDP president and chief ministerial candidate Mehbooba Mufti, MPs Muzaffar Hussain Baig and Tariq Hameed Karra and BJP state chief Sat Sharma, Nirmal Singh and Jugal Kishore will be taking part,” sources said.
Sources said that a minor reshuffle of portfolios will take place and possibility of few new inductions cannot be ruled out.
Sources also said that both the parties have agreed that the budget will be passed through vote of account by the governor dispensation. (KNS)