Senior leader Muzaffar Hussain Beigh said “Mehboobaji is not ready and
oath-taking will happen only after chahrum (the fourth day ceremony) is over,” who
is tipped to succeed Mehbooba as PDP president. Beigh, who is also senior
lawyer and a constitutional expert, added that there will be no constitutional
crises due to the vacuum. “There will be a few days of governor’s rule but he
will be a caretaker till another chief minister takes oath,” said Beigh. also
stressed that the party does not want to put pressure on Mehbooba. “She is a
mother, a daughter, a sister…the tragedy is huge and she is everybody’s source
of strength. It will be unfair to force her to do something,” he said. Sayeed
is the third J&K chief minister to die in office but a delay in the
announcement of the successor is unprecedented. National Conference founder
Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah was succeeded by son Farooq Abdullah even before the
legendary Kashmiri leader was laid to rest on September 8, 1982. The state’s
chief minister and Mehbooba’s father, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, died at AIIMS in
Delhi on Thursday leaving the state technically without a government. Barring
any last-minute hitches, Mehbooba, 56, is set to become the state’s first woman
chief minister with coalition partner BJP indicating it was comfortable with
her at the helm. Jammu and Kashmir might be headed for a few days of governor’s
rule
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