They, however, said Sharma is reluctant to take over as J&K BJP president/Asked whether BJP would follow the Congress, which authorized its central leadership to decide its leader of legislature party, Sethi said normally this does not happen in BJP. “The legislature party will decide their leader and he will be the leader of the opposition,” he said. Although NC emerged as the single largest party by winning 42 seats, BJP emerged as the second largest party and has the highest vote share in the Assembly elections securing 25.64% vote share. The NC secured 23.43% vote share while Congress received 11.97% and PDP got 8.87% of votes. With 29 members in the Assembly, the BJP is likely to give tough time to the NC-Congress coalition government to be headed by Omar Abdullah. Omar, who was elected as NC legislature party leader, and is backed by Congress, five independents, CPI(M) and AAP, met Lt Governor Manoj Sinha on Friday evening and staked claim on government formation.Omar is hopeful that the oath-taking ceremony would take place on Wednesday now that the over six-year-long president’s rule in J&K has been revoked. J&K has been under direct central rule since June 2018, when the then BJP-PDP coalition led by Mehbooba Mufti collapsed following withdrawal of support by BJP citing security concerns.
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