Amidst widening of strains between the Bharatiya Janata Party and Peoples Democratic Party ruling alliance in Jammu and Kashmir, the BJP general secretary Ram Madhav on Friday air-dashed here and held a series of meetings with the party’s ministers, legislators and senior functionaries in a bid to cool down the tempers.

Madhav is also expected to meet the Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti to discuss the issue. The state BJP chief, Sat Sharma and the organisational general secretary Ashok Kaul were earlier summoned to Delhi, where on Thursday they briefed Madhav and other party leaders about the political situation in the state.

Madhav was architect of the agenda of alliance for PDP and BJP from the BJP side while the sacked minister Haseeb Drabu represented the PDP.

Mehbooba appears to be slowly drifting away from the BJP as her party leaders were accusing the Modi led government at the centre of having failed to implement even a single point listed in the agenda of alliance although three years have passed when the coalition was formed to rule the state.

The PDP leaders were complaining that the party had eroded its political base in the valley by firstly joining hands with the BJP and secondly non-implementation of the agenda was embarrassing it in Kashmir.

On the other hand, the BJP leadership has the grouse of Mehbooba “discriminating” with the Jammu region and also accuses her of trying to “alter” demography of the Hindu majority area.

It was for the first time in the electoral history that the BJP won 25 Assembly seats in the Jammu division, but the party’s graph has nosedived as the legislators were not in a position to fulfill the promises that were also made even by the Prime Minister Narendera Modi in his election speeches here.

Anger against BJP is brewing here and in a recent meeting an elderly person apparently disappointed with functioning of the party grappled with the state BJP chief.

Annoyance against Mehbooba is not confined among the legislators of BJP but a MLC of her party, Vikramaditya Singh, recently resigned his Legislative Council seat and also from her PDP while accusing discrimination with Jammu.

BJP insiders say that implementation of certain controversial points of the agenda of alliance might burn party’s fingers as the experiment of withdrawing police cases against 9,730 stone pelters in Kashmir triggered countrywide criticism not only for PDP but also for its ally BJP.

Stone pelting at the Army and other security forces has again begun on the streets of the valley.

The BJP leadership has not denied talks with the stakeholders, but has been saying that talks with the valley based separatists, who have been taking pro-Pakistan stance, could be initiated only if they shun hatred against India and create a congenial atmosphere for talks.

While Pakistan is backing terrorism and almost every day shelling Indian civilian areas and killing innocent people along the Line of Control (LOC), but Mehbooba and other Kashmir centric parties were pressurising the Modi government to open dialogue with Pakistan and the separatists.