Mehbooba Mufti (Baji or elder sister as she’s called) has now kept the BJP waiting for over a week. Day after fretful day the BJP and her own party, the PDP, look for indications of her intent but no one really knows when she will take the oath as CM. The wind in the bare chinars of Kashmir is becoming colder by the day.
In Mehbooba’s by now obvious reluctance to take oath, in the fast-growing stand-off between the alliance partners, in the battle of nerves that she is silently waging against the BJP, the contrast between father and daughter couldn’t be greater. Mufti Mohammad Sayeed may have been a sharp politician but he was a genial, genteel paterfamilias, always ready Read More
