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| Babu caught on wrong foot | | First walkout in assembly on power crisis | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Jan 8
The Minister of State for Power Babu Singh was today caught on the wrong foot when entire opposition brought to the fore a plethora of questions on power supply and distribution.
In his typical style, the Minister of State tried his best to counter the opposition during the Question Hour but all in vain. The Industries Minister Nawang Rigzin Jora, who till recently was the Power Minister, came to the rescue of Babu Singh several times but this could not satisfy the opposition.
Babu Singh's inability to satisfy the Opposition led to the first walkout of the current session as entire opposition left the House renting slogans against the department. Ea... | |
| | | | What about 'socialist' J&K | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Jan 8
In 60 years of its existence as a democratic state and 50 years after application of the separate constitution, the Jammu and Kashmir state constitution is yet to incorporate the most import word "socialist" in its preamble.
This issue has assumed all the more importance as the Supreme Court today turned down as plea for deleting the word "socialist" from the preamble of the constitution of India.
In Jammu and Kashmir, this issue of incorporating the word "socialist" in the preamble of the constitution has been raised several times but the government which ought to have brought a bill in the legislature has not taken note of it. Last year this issue ... | |
| | | | Congress in praise of Mufti | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Jan 8
It seems that the Peoples Democratic Party patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed who remained at dagger drawn with the main ruling partner in the government has suddenly found a large lobby of sympathizers in the Congress party.
As the debate on the motion of thanks to the Governor's address began in the legislative assembly this morning, the Congress legislators blew their lungs out to sing in praise of Mufti. It may be recalled that the Governor's address too had laid huge emphasis on the remarkable works done during Mufti's tenure as Chief Minister.
Picking up from where the Governor had left yesterday, the Congress legislators while participating in the ... | |
| | | | Sagar threatens to bring No-Confidence motion against Speaker | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Jan 08
Fire brand leader of National Conference Ali Muhammad Sagar today threatened to bring no-confidence motion against Speaker Tara Chand, whom the former accused of being biased towards the opposition benches.
The threat came when House was in commotion during the Question Hour, this morning. The members were protesting against, `poor' power scenario and undue favour to some private companies while executing various prestigious projects.
NC MLA Ali Muhammad Sagar, who along with Main Altaf was protesting for refusal by the Speaker to grant them time to speak turned ferious, when he failed to get attention of the Chair.
'Speaker Sahib Yeh Acha Nehi Ha... | |
| | | | Praise of Mufti Sayeed in Governor's address is in contrast to Gen. Sinha's personal assessment of Mufti | | | | Early Times Special Correspondent
Jammu | Jan 8
Performing the annual ritual of reading his address at the joint session of both the Houses of legislature, on the first day of the budget session, on Monday January 7, the State Governor General (Rtd) S K Sinha was at pains to equate the former Chief Minister of the coalition government, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and the present Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, giving equal credit to both for the achievements registered and progress made by the state during six years of coalition rule in the state.
The politicians are known for changing their tone and tenor about the events and making evaluation of the individuals in keeping with their changi... | |
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