JAMMU: Today, when PDP Chief Mehbooba Mufti would chair the meeting of the senior party functionaries and ground level foot soldiers to assess the current political situation and review the agenda of peace and development set by party patron and former Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed the senior BJP leaders here in Jammu would be eager to know the outcome.
Though PDP has already made it clear that on Sunday the party leaders would be meeting in Srinagar to discuss the agenda of peace and development and the deliberations would have no bearing on the final decision of government formation, the state BJP leaders are still pinning all their hopes on the closed door deliberations.
Besides second rung PDP leaders and junior legislators it is BJP legislators who are caught in Catch 22 situation as they do not know what is happening behind the curtains and what shape the current political impasse would take in the days to come.
These junior legislators have been kept out of the loop by their party high commands and have been struggling to explain how soon the ongoing deadlock would be over between the alliance partners.
Insiders in the PDP claimed on Sunday that the PDP Chief is expected to discuss the preparedness of the party machinery at the grass roots level ahead of the local bodies polls. The mood of the electorate during these polls is expected to show mirror to almost all the mainstream political parties and help them prepare their future strategy.
PDP leaders may have already authorised Mehbooba Mufti to take a final decision over the issue of government formation still the second meeting of party leaders is seen as a significant development where she is expected to broad base the ongoing discussion on the moot question of forging fresh alliance with the BJP by redrawing Agenda of Alliance.
So far BJP too has maintained that when ‘Agenda of Alliance’ exists where is the need to redraw the contours of engagement. The same was decided upon by the leaders of both the parties and agreed upon before inking the same.
As of now the deliberations may be going on behind the curtains to strike a balance and evolve broader consensus but in the absence of any common meeting ground both the parties continue to remain in silent mode and judging the pulse of the masses ahead of brokering a peace deal to end the impasse.