<p>Pulling out of the Mehbooba Mufti government in Jammu and Kashmir, the BJP has lost yet another ally in the NDA Alliance, but it's a break-up that seems to have made both partners happy.</p>.<p class="bodytext">However, since the PDP has only one Lok Sabha MP, the loss in terms of strength for the NDA is not a big one. When Chandrababu Naidu had walked out of the NDA, it was a loss of 16 MPs.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Out of the six Lok Sabha seats in Jammu and Kashmir, the BJP currently has MPs in three — Ladhak, Udhampur and Jammu — while the PDP, which had won three seats in 2014, has only one MP — Muzaffar Hussain Baig from Baramulla.</p>.<p class="bodytext">PDP MP from Srinagar, Tariq Hameed Karra, had resigned in October 2016 protesting against the government's failure to end violence in the Valley and blaming the PDP-BJP alliance for it.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The seat was won by NC's Farooq Abdullah in April 2017. Election still eludes the Anantnag seat vacated by Mehbooba in April 2016 after becoming the chief minister.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Ever since the coming together of the two adversarial allies, there was a perception that it was an "unnatural alliance" for the state, in which both parties have been taking positions discordant to each other for decades.</p>.<p class="bodytext">There was a view within the BJP that the continuance of the alliance could have posed a challenge before it to repeat its win of three Lok Sabha seats.</p>.<p class="bodytext">With anger against Mehbooba growing, PDP could also face a very tough situation in retaining the three seats it won in 2014. So, at the national level, it was not working.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Besides, the Congress and other Opposition parties were frequently targeting the BJP for its alliance with the hardliner PDP, a campaign which have could have reached a peak during 2019 Lok Sabha polls.</p>.<p class="bodytext">With no significant improvement on the terror front in the state, a view was growing in the BJP that the PDP was, of late, becoming a "liability" for the ruling alliance at the Centre as it came in the way of the hardliner nationalistic politics of the BJP.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Even in PDP, the voice against the alliance with the BJP was growing and immediately after the BJP withdrew support, Mufti went to town asserting that a "muscular policy" won't work for Jammu and Kashmir.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In April this year, Mehbooba's brother and a minister in the state government, Tasaduq Mufti, had said that the PDP had ended being partners in crime (with the BJP) and that people no longer trust them.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Incidentally, when BJP and PDP tied up in 2015 to form a government in Jammu and Kashmir, PDP's founder Mufti Mohammed Sayeed had described the coming together as "North Pole and South Pole".</p>.<p class="bodytext">The break-up stresses on how apt Sayeed's description is even years after his death.</p>
<p>Pulling out of the Mehbooba Mufti government in Jammu and Kashmir, the BJP has lost yet another ally in the NDA Alliance, but it's a break-up that seems to have made both partners happy.</p>.<p class="bodytext">However, since the PDP has only one Lok Sabha MP, the loss in terms of strength for the NDA is not a big one. When Chandrababu Naidu had walked out of the NDA, it was a loss of 16 MPs.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Out of the six Lok Sabha seats in Jammu and Kashmir, the BJP currently has MPs in three — Ladhak, Udhampur and Jammu — while the PDP, which had won three seats in 2014, has only one MP — Muzaffar Hussain Baig from Baramulla.</p>.<p class="bodytext">PDP MP from Srinagar, Tariq Hameed Karra, had resigned in October 2016 protesting against the government's failure to end violence in the Valley and blaming the PDP-BJP alliance for it.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The seat was won by NC's Farooq Abdullah in April 2017. Election still eludes the Anantnag seat vacated by Mehbooba in April 2016 after becoming the chief minister.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Ever since the coming together of the two adversarial allies, there was a perception that it was an "unnatural alliance" for the state, in which both parties have been taking positions discordant to each other for decades.</p>.<p class="bodytext">There was a view within the BJP that the continuance of the alliance could have posed a challenge before it to repeat its win of three Lok Sabha seats.</p>.<p class="bodytext">With anger against Mehbooba growing, PDP could also face a very tough situation in retaining the three seats it won in 2014. So, at the national level, it was not working.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Besides, the Congress and other Opposition parties were frequently targeting the BJP for its alliance with the hardliner PDP, a campaign which have could have reached a peak during 2019 Lok Sabha polls.</p>.<p class="bodytext">With no significant improvement on the terror front in the state, a view was growing in the BJP that the PDP was, of late, becoming a "liability" for the ruling alliance at the Centre as it came in the way of the hardliner nationalistic politics of the BJP.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Even in PDP, the voice against the alliance with the BJP was growing and immediately after the BJP withdrew support, Mufti went to town asserting that a "muscular policy" won't work for Jammu and Kashmir.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In April this year, Mehbooba's brother and a minister in the state government, Tasaduq Mufti, had said that the PDP had ended being partners in crime (with the BJP) and that people no longer trust them.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Incidentally, when BJP and PDP tied up in 2015 to form a government in Jammu and Kashmir, PDP's founder Mufti Mohammed Sayeed had described the coming together as "North Pole and South Pole".</p>.<p class="bodytext">The break-up stresses on how apt Sayeed's description is even years after his death.</p>