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| Cabinet meeting | | Coaltion allies CONG-PDP , continue to rub shoulders with each other | |
Srinagar, May 18
The state cabinet,which met here yesterday, failed to clear two major proposals because of continued tussle between the PDP and the PDF backed Congress. The cabinet had taken up the issue
pertaining to the posting of senior superintendents of police to the recently created four districts in the Kashmir valley. The matter had been kept under the carpet for the last about one month.
When the issue was raised cabinet ministers expressed different opinion on the posting of persons with the result the matter was again deferred.
The elevation of 10 SSPs to the rank of DIG could not figure because in the absence of B.R.Kundal Home Commissioner,who is out of the country,the man incharge of home Department had not put up the case.The Chief Minister,Ghulam Nabi Azad,dared not
make a suo motto reference to the matter because he had already come to know that ministers wanted more than 13 SSPs to be promoted to the rank of DIG.Thus Azad is said to have kept mum on the matter.
He,however,took pleasure when Mohd.Hakim Yaseen,Transport Minister,and Minister for Agriculture,Mr Abdul Aziz Zargar,exchanged hot words.Mr Yaseen was heard shouting at Mr Zargar. Of late Hakim Yaseen has been in the forefront of a
campaign against Mufti Mohd.Sayeed and at various public rallies he has not hesitated in using unparliamentary expressionns while criticising the Mufti.
When a number of political leaders were asked about the reason for Hakim Yaseen's fulminations against the Mufti and his ideas they said the Chief Minister wanted horses for carrying the Government cart forward. They said that Mr Azad does not realise that his cart was being driven by four horses and each
horse was trying to outstrip the other.
A joke circulating via mobile SMS service says "Dr Farooq Abdullah has demonstrated that he can be the chief minister at any time.Mufti Sayeed has shown that anybody can become the Chief Minister of the state and Mr Azad has exhibited that the Government couild run in Jammu and Kashmir without a Chief Minister."
If on one hand the rate of militancy related violence has gone down,on the other the level of political and administrative chaos and confusion in the state has gone up.Political observers say that Mr Azad has failed either in keeping the flock together or in
imposing discipline.They say that with open support from the centre the Chief Minister could have easily kicked out irritant elements from the council of ministers and from the bureaucracy.
Was he biding time ?Possibly so because he was seen brooding and working on files for several hours in his room after the cabinet meeting ended.
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