PDP's Jammu meeting postponed

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Press Trust of India Srinagar
Last Updated : Jan 28 2016 | 10:22 PM IST
A meeting of PDP's senior party workers and zonal heads in Jammu, convened by party chief Mehbooba Mufti for February 3, has been postponed indefinitely.
"The meeting in Srinagar will be held as per schedule on Janaury 31 but the Jammu sitting has been postponed for the time being," sources in the PDP said today.
Fresh date for the Jammu meeting has not been finalised yet, the sources said.
Mehbooba had convened the two meetings with the aim of getting a feedback from the grass root levels of the party workers and office bearers on government formation in the state.
The party is also expected to launch a membership drive after the meeting in Srinagar.
The meeting has been convened three weeks after Governor's Rule was imposed in the state after the death of then Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed on January 7.
Sayeed was heading a coalition government with BJP since March 1 last year after the Assembly elections threw up a fractured verdict.
Mehbooba was seen as the successor to her father as the Chief Minister but she has maintained suspense over the issue and not yet staked claim to form the government.
Days back, she held a meeting with senior leaders who authorised her to take a decision on the formation of the next government but she has still not revealed her cards.
Some PDP leaders had said that Mehbooba wanted a review of the work done during Sayeed's 10-month tenure, especially with regard to implementation of 'Agenda of Alliance' framed with BJP.
BJP, with 25 MLAs in the 87-member Assembly, has made it clear that it wants the alliance to continue and were waiting for 27-member PDP to elect its Legislature Party leader.
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First Published: Jan 28 2016 | 10:22 PM IST

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