Following the death of Mufti Muhammad Sayeed, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is left with 28 MLAs and even if the party allies with Congress for government formation and gets the support of all independent MLAs, who are not backed by the rightwing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), they would still fall short of one seat. Following Mufti’s death, PDP, which had won 28 seats in the 2014 Legislative Assembly polls and added one more to the kitty with the nomination of Anjum Fazili as one of the two nominated MLAs, is…
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