BJP not to enter into post-poll alliance in J&K: Arun Jaitley

JAMMU: Ruling out post-poll alliance with any regional party in Jammu and Kashmir, the BJP today said it has not deviated from its ideology on the issue of revocation of Article 370 from the state.

"Our views are the same which always were there and you know what our views are," Union Minister Arun Jaitley said while replying to a query about BJP not raising the issue of revocation of Article 370 in the ongoing Assembly elections.

On the possibility of a post-poll alliance to form the next government in J&K, he said, "We will not join hands with any regional party to form the government. BJP is trying to form the government of its own, if someone from the nationalistic forces want to come and sit with us we will let them join."

"We have no political relationship with these two regional parties ( NC, PDP) as we have different ideologies," the senior BJP leader said.

Talking to reporters on sidelines of a party function here, Jaitley said that issues taken up by the party during campaigns were in context of the elections.

"Every election has its own context and the issues that we have raised are in context with the Assembly elections here," he said.

Without naming Article 370, which prohibits non-state subjects from buying immovable property in J&K, Jaitley said, "People are not ready to invest where they have so many complications and difficulties. Top universities want to come in Jammu and Kashmir, but would you be able to provide land for such universities?"

He said that if BJP forms the next government here it would form three regional councils so that there is equal distribution of funds and resources within the three regions of the state.