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| Azad may return to J&K to fulfill AICC's 2014-2020 ambition | | Cong collegium authorizes Sonia Gandhi to appoint new JKPCC chief, office-bearers | | | early times report
SRINAGAR, May 19: Eying on the hot seat of power in Jammu and Kashmir for 2014-2020, Sonia Gandhi and her All India Congress Committee (AICC) have almost decided to send Ghulam Nabi Azad back to the politically instable northern state in near future. Even as the final decision would be taken by 10 Janpath later this month or early next month, the collegium of Pradesh Congress Committee members today authorized Mrs Gandhi for appointing the new JKPCC President, Vice President and other office-bearers in total restructuring of the state unit.
Years after holding a major rally at Sher-e-Kashmir Park, on May 21st 2006, and Sonia Gandhi's historic address to over 10,000 party workers, including thousands of students and Anganwari Workers at SKICC lawns, JKPCC today organized a rare show of unity at SKICC. Although Mrs Gandhi was not in attendance, almost all of the AICC's stalwarts related to J&K attended the day-long conclave.
Significantly, members of both the rival factions---one headed by JKPCC President Prof Saif-ud-din Soz and another by union Health Min... | |
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| Azad raps Omar Govt over failure to build two pediatric hospitals | | 'I acquired land, bent rules to provide Rs 100 Cr, sanctioned 2 hospitals but state Govt failed to act' | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, May 19: Dismantling Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's suggestion that Government of India was a roadblock in raising and maintaining the children's hospitals in J&K, union Minister of Health and senior Congress leader, Ghulam Nabi Azad, today claimed that it was the state Government that had failed to build the two hospitals. He claimed that he had not only acquired 100 Kanals of land for Hajj House and a pediatric hospital in Bemina area of Srinagar as Chief Minister but also sanctioned two pediatric hospitals and provided Rs 100 Cr by relaxation of NRHM norms, as union Health Minister, for the construction, but Omar Abdullah's government had failed to go for exe... | |
| | | | Congress' double game: Panchayat poll process 'incomplete'…. | | Rhetoric on empowerment continues with 'resolution' | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 19: Congress has perfected the art of playing double games. On one hand it continues to enjoy 'bonhomie' with its coalition partner National Conference , seldom asserting on the issues core to its ideology just for the sake of sharing power and on the other hand it conveniently befools people on the same issues using politics of rhetoric. In veiled attack the party leadership expresses that it wants things to happen but is unable to do because its ally does not cooperate. One wonders why it continues to take people for a ride…?
In its delegate convention the leadership has demonstrated this attitude once again. In what can be seen as the only importa... | |
| | | | Institutionalized corruption in DDK Srinagar was stimulated in 2010 | | | | early times report
Srinagar, May 19: Institutional corruption in Jammu and Kashmir is now an open secret and very often startling revelations about corruption being legalized in the departments come to the fore, however, Radio Kashmir Srinagar and Doordarshan Srinagar the twin institutions which are directly under the control of central government have broken all the records in siphoning
off the money in a deceitful manner.
In 2010 some startling revelations were made about the missing of some antiques of Maharaj's time from the Hospitality and Protocol Department. Sources said that some of these historical antiques were gifted by the government to many VVIP's who visited Kashmir in... | |
| | | | BJP's decline in Jammu region imminent, workers leaving party | | | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 19: With more and more loyal workers switching over to other parties, BJP seems to be loosing ground in Jammu region,
Shri Amarnath Land row of year 2008 helped BJP raise its number to 11 but subsequent events, especially secret vote drama, brought its doom. People viewed this as deceit with the mandate they had given to BJP. They began shifting over. From PDP to NC, the BJP workers have not bothered to look into merits of a political party and switched over in disgust and disbelief.
If the trend continues, BJP is all set to loose base in Jammu region. In a recent event, State Vice-President BJP Mahila Morcha Neena Gupta alongwith Mandal President Janipur ... | |
| | | | No stationery- No work at RTO Office !! | | | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, May 19: Work at the ever busiest Transport Section of city Regional Transport Office (RTO), Jammu has come to a halt as lower staff complains about the acute shortage of stationery items in office stock.
According to the sources, the work at the said office already has been affected due to the shortage of staff and now the work has downed further because of the reported shortage of the stationery that is hindering official work at the Regional Transport Office.
The basic needed slips and other stationery items have virtually gone
out of sight putting the visitors to suffer who often are moving from one section or the other while some complaint those who had s... | |
| | | | Geelani turns cleric at Srinagar seminar | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 19: The Hurriyat (G) chairman, Syed Ali Shah Geelani delivered a sermon on values, morals and culture while addressing a seminar on importance and relevance of UN resolutions.
The seminar was convened in response to Professor Abdul Ghani Bhat's recent statement that triggered a controversy within the Mirwaiz Hurriyat. While ruling out relevance of the UN resolutions, Bhat had suggested an alliance with pro-Indian parties like National Conference and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
One of the speakers said convening a seminar to respond to `nonsense' of a particular person was not wise. "It makes such irrelevant people important", he said.
The audie... | |
| | | | Is NC a mainstream political organization? | | Sagar & Separatists | | | RUSTAM
JAMMU, May 19: Speaking on behalf of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah the other day in YK Pora, Qazigund (Kulgam), Law and Parliamentary Affairs and Rural Development Minister, Ali Mohammad Sagar said that Omar Abdullah is ready to step down if the separatist leaders are willing to become a part of the mainstream and contest polls and appreciated the separatists for the interest they have started taking in developmental issues as well as issues of governance. He made this statement while talking to reporters on the sidelines of a NC rally. "Though the political solution of Kashmir is a prerequisite for overall peace and progress but, at the same time, we have to address the day-to-day p... | |
| | | | Proposal to construct 48 km 'alternative' road mooted in 2004 'unheeded' | | Amarnath yatra duration row | | | BHARAT BHUSHAN
JAMMU, May 19: To avoid the curtailment of the duration of holy Amarnath yatra and restore it to its original four-month period, a high level meeting held in New Delhi in 2004 had proposed the construction of 48-km-long Chandanwari-Sangam-Baltal road.
The meeting, chaired by Jagmohan in his capacity as union minister of tourism and culture, was attended by ex-J&K governor and Shri Amarnath Shrine Board chairman S K Sinha, former defence secretary Ajay Bikram Singh, IAS officer Parvaiz Dewan as a special invitee and senior board members.
Sangam is 3 km short of the natural and highly revered cave that houses the holy ice lingam in the south Kashmir Himalayas. Chandanwari an... | |
| | | | Azad, Soz share dais; talk of mending fences | | Cong to get portfolios back | | | Basher Assad
SRINAGAR, May19: Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad today reiterated that Congress will get back portfolios presently with National Conference (NC).
However, Azad was very cautious and avoided words like cabinet expansion or reshuffle in his speech at party convention here at Srinagar. Azad shared dais with Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh congress committee (JKPCC) President Prof. Saifuddin Soz, for the first time. Though bitter rivals, both looked relaxed.
Azad did not use "expansion" or "reshuffle" instead said that back to Delhi, he alongwith Soz would discuss the issue of return of portfolios, presently with National Conference with the party high command and assured tha... | |
| | | | Sagar is simply kidding Kashmiri separatists | | Behind the veil | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 19: When the National Conference led Government has nothing to gloat about,nothing to beguile on,it has started deriving pleasure and satisfaction from vague gestures of the separatists believing they were ready to join the national mainstream.
When a couple of leaders belonging to APHC, including its chairman, Molvi Umar Farooq and a senior leader,Prof.Abdul Gani Bhat,spoke about various issues concerning the governance in Jammu and Kashmir the ruling coalition in general and the National Conference leaders in particular took it,rather mistook it,for their willingness to be part of the mainstream politics.It is nothing but ludicrous or silly on the par... | |
| | | | Jammu hospitals also in shambles, ill-equipped | | Indifferent CM, HM, MME? | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, May 19: People of Kashmir are seething with anger. They are holding anti-government demonstrations. They are also denouncing Union Health Minister and senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad for his failure. The leadership of the political parties like the PDP is also extremely angry with the NC-Congress coalition government. So much so that the PDP president and Leader of Opposition in the Legislative Assembly Mehbooba Mufti has sought the Prime Minister's intervention to salvage the situation. Significantly, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has also been expressing dissatisfaction and thinking in terms of approaching the Prime Minister to solicit his support to ease... | |
| | | | United Cong a red signal to Omar | | | | early times report
Srinagar, May 19: The coming together of vertically divided PCC, between Azad and Soz loyalists, at a convention in Srinagar is surely a warning signal for chief minister Omar Abdullah.
The National Conference, especially the CM, has been enjoying the fruits of power at behest of division in the Congress, though at times engineered by it also.
The NC is not comfortable with the idea of sharing power and now that it was forced to do so, it benefited from the divisions in the Congress. It's for this reason that NC didn't deem it fit to hand over the portfolio of the R&B ministry held by it even after about two-year. The CM himself has infact even discounted the claims ... | |
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