Jammu & Kashmir State Assembly Dissolved

Governor Satya Pal Malik on Wednesday night dissolved the state assembly, the action that doesn’t need to be ratified by Parliament under J&K’s Constitution. The dissolution followed soon after Mehbooba Mufti of PDP stakes claim to form the goverment with the support of Congress and National Conference. Sajjad Lone had also put his claim to form the government. Both of them claimed to have the necessary numbers required to form the government. But Governer didn’t invite any of them and instead dissolved the state assembly which is belived to be after his consultation with the Union Government.

“The impossibility of forming a stable government by the coming together of political parties with opposing political ideologies including some which have been demanding dissolution of the Assembly, whereas the experience of the past few years shows that with the fractured mandate that is there in the Assembly, it is not possible to form a stable government comprising of like-minded parties,” the governor said in a statement.