BJP, PDP leaders meet Guv over govt formation in JK

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Press Trust of India Jammu
Last Updated : Jan 28 2015 | 6:55 PM IST
PDP and BJP may be heading towards forming a coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir with leaders of both the parties apprising Governor N N Vohra separately about progress in their talks even as they prepared for a tie-up in the coming Rajya Sabha elections.
PDP MLA Haseeb Drabu, the interlocutor with the BJP on talks for government formation, met the Governor who earlier received a BJP delegation headed by party's General Secretary Ram Madhav, the party pointsman in the state.
Significantly after the meetings, Raj Bhavan issued a statement which said Drabu apprised the Governor "about the realisations which have emerged from the PDP-BJP parleys on government formation which have been continuing for the past about a month and the broad contours of the matters being finalised in the coming days."
In another release, the Raj Bhavan said during the one-hour long meeting Madhav informed the Governor "about the present status of the ongoing BJP-PDP discussions on the formation of an elected Government."
He was accompanied by state BJP President Jugal Kishore and party MLA Nirmal Singh.
In the highly-fractured verdict, PDP emerged as the single largest party with 28 MLAs followed closely by BJP with 25. National Conference ended up with a tally of 15 while Congress got 12 seats.
In the 87-member House, two seats each went to People's Conference and Jammu And Kashmir People Democratic Front (Secular), three independents and one to CPM.
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First Published: Jan 28 2015 | 6:55 PM IST

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