Srinagar: The PDP on Thursday wrote to the governor recommending Mehbooba Mufti as the next chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir following the death of her father Mufti Mohammad Sayeed.
The Bharatiya Janata Party, its ally in the state, made it clear that it will go with the PDP's choice for the post of chief minister.
"It is for PDP to decide who will be their leader," BJP vice president and its Jammu and Kashmir in-charge Avinash Rai Khanna said when asked about his party's stand on Mehbooba succeeding her father.
"Our alliance is with PDP," Rai added, indicating it was the senior ally's prerogative to choose the leader for the top job.
The decision was made hours after CM Mufti Mohammad Sayeed died on Thursday at Delhi's All India Medical Institute of Medical Sciences. The 79-year-old was suffering from sepsis, low blood counts and pneumonia.
56-year-old Mehbooba, who is the PDP's president, has had her share of detractors in the saffron ranks for several reasons, including her passionate espousal of her party's 'self-rule' concept, which used to be dubbed "as soft separatism" by many in the BJP.
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