Mohan Bhagwat will hold the strings of a BJP-PDP government in Jammu & Kashmir: Congress

Congress claimed that RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat would be "holding the strings" of a BJP-PDP government in Jammu and Kashmir.

"Though we wish them (PDP-BJP) best of luck, but we don't think that this proposed government would complete its tenure, the strings of this government would be in the hands of RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat," Congress spokesman Salman Soz said. He said both the parties had contested the Assembly elections against each other and now they were ready to come together to form the government.

"Now this is up to the people to decide as the same parties that contested the elections against each other are now joining hands to form the government in the state," he said.

Soz said both the parties had made compromises with their ideology to form the coalition in the state.

"It is obvious that to come together both these parties might have compromised with their ideology." Soz said the people of the state who were affected by last year's devastating floods were in need of a stable government but the upcoming coalition would not be able to mitigate their problems.

He said before reaching a consensus both the parties had to take RSS into confidence. "You can well understand that nothing went ahead without the permission of RSS that is why it took so much of time for both the parties to announce the formation of the government," he claimed.

Soz said the people of the state would be the better judge for the new government. "The people of the state would judge these two parties as they are aware that both these parties left their ideologies for which people had voted them to form the government," he said.

Soz alleged that BJP had a habit of forgetting the promises it makes to the people during the elections. "BJP is into this habit of forgetting the promises it makes to the people before the elections," he said.