Soon after submitting her resignation as chief minister following the BJP’s pullout from the ruling alliance, PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti ruled out the option of exploring “any other alliance”, and warned that a “muscular policy” will not succeed in J&K, which is “not enemy territory”. Addressing a press conference Tuesday after faxing her resignation to J&K Governor Vohra, Mufti said, “Jammu and Kashmir is not an enemy territory. This is the territory of the people of Jammu and Kashmir…. We have always believed that a muscular policy will not work… the muscular policy will not succeed here.”
Mufti refrained from criticising the BJP for pulling the plug on her government and said that the PDP opted for this alliance with some “bigger objectives” in mind. “We didn’t stitch this alliance (with BJP) for power. If we had done it for power, then Omar (Abdullah) sahib and Congress were ready to support us. This (alliance) had bigger objectives. What were those…
