Jammu and Kashmir’s wait for a new government is likely to get over as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are poised to join hands and form a coalition soon.
Sources said that the PDP patron and former chief minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed will be meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and a formal announcement will be made in the next few days.
Sayeed would be the chief minister of the alliance and an agreement had been reached between the two parties on a common minimum programme and contentious issues like Article 370, displaced Kashmiri Pandits and uniform civil code had been thrashed out, said sources.
The PDP has 28 and the BJP 25 seats in the state assembly. The National Conference won 15 seats and its former ally, the Congress 12. Seven seats went to Independents and smaller parties.
If the two parties agree over the nitty-gritties then this would be the first time that the BJP would be part of a government in the Valley.
