Taking lame excuses for its failures while in power shows the political isolation of PDP in the current election scenario in Jammu & Kashmir state. Party leaders saying that their party could not deliver due to the killing of the top Hizb Commander Burhan Wani in 2016 is their one more desperate attempt to reconnect themselves with the people at grass roots in the mid poll campaigning. PDP leaders blaming killing of Burhan Wani for their government’s failure is in fact an endorsement of the failure of Mehbooba Mufti in tacking the situation that developed in Kashmir valley after the killing of Burhan Wani the top Hizb commander in June 2016. Otherwise also PDP leaders need not to explain the failures of Mehbooba Mufti as Chief Minister of PDP-BJP coalition government in the state. The inability of Mehbooba Mufti to keep her flock together days after pull out from her government by BJP shows that she has failed to deliver both as a party leader and as well as Chief Minister of the state. Had Mehbooba Mufti been least concerned about the political morality the sermons of which she is delivering in party meetings and election rallies now a days , she would have offered to quit the position of party presidency the time senior leaders of the party accused her of sidelining them and allowing her close affiliations to hijack the party.
Senior leaders quitting PDP under the leadership of Mehbooba Mufti and choosing to join a political party which was an unattached ally of in BJP Mehbooba led PDP-BJP coalition government shows that Mehbooba could not control rising dissension within her own party. Even naives won’t believe that a leader failing to control the dissensions within her own party can keep together a coalition the constituent parties of which are propagating opposing political ideologies but PDP leaders were endorsing even the unpopular decisions of Mehbooba Mufti as Chief Minister just for the purposes of pelf and power. Ultimately the failure of Mehbooba Mufti to settle terms of power sharing with BJP and not the killing of top Hizb commander Burhan wani was the cause of the failure of PDP.