New Delhi/Srinagar: In a surprise move, the BJP on Tuesday pulled out of the three-year-old ruling coalition with the PDP in Jammu and Kashmir and called for Governor’s rule, which appeared imminent, after which Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti quit.
She insisted that the PDP did not do it for power but to safeguard the interests of the people of J&K. “We didn’t do it for power. Had we done it for power then there were numbers with National Conference and Congress. We did it for some objective,” she asserted.
Ms Mufti also said that her government preserved Article 370 and also stood strong in defence of Article 35-A, that the cases against 11,000 first time stone-pelters were withdrawn, Prime Minister, Narendra Modi visited Pakistan for talks and unilateral ceasefire for Ramzan was announced.
She said her government also retained the territorial integrity of the state and addressed the insecurity of the minority in a case of cow vigilantism and in Rasana village of Kathua district where an 8-year-old girl was gangraped and killed.
