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PDP patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed. (Source: PTI photo)
Jammu & Kashmir on Thursday appeared hurtling towards a spell of governor’s rule with incumbent N N Vohra sending a report to the Centre on the political impasse after Omar Abdullah asked him to relieve him as caretaker chief minister.
The report to the President is understood to be containing two or three suggestions including the option of a spell of governor’s rule in the wake of no party being in a position to cobble up numbers required to form a government after the highly fractured verdict in the assembly elections, sources said.
The governor’s report comes a day after Omar met him in Delhi last night soon after his return from London after a 12-day visit to his ailing parents and asked him to relieve him as caretaker chief minister.
Omar told him that the state needed a full-time administrator to deal with the situation along the border with Pakistan and providing relief to flood-affected people in the Kashmir valley.
I had assumed govt formation would be a matter of a week or 10. Today we seem even further away from that goal than we were 10 days ago 2/n
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— Omar Abdullah (@abdullah_omar) January 8, 2015
“Just to confirm I did meet governor Vohra sahib last night and ask him to relieve me as caretaker CM. I had agreed to stay temporarily,” Omar tweeted on Thursday.
I believe the interests of the state will only be served by a full time administrator & not a caretaker with no mandate to govern. 4/n
— Omar Abdullah (@abdullah_omar) January 8, 2015
He was asked to continue as caretaker chief minister on December 24 after his resignation in the wake of defeat of his party, National Conference (NC), in the assembly poll on December 23.
It is now for the @jkpdp to explain to the people that with 28 MLAs & offers of support from 2 other parties why the state has central rule.
— Omar Abdullah (@abdullah_omar) January 8, 2015
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