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| Watch out: The din in House today | | Mufti summons his party minister to discuss situation | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Jan 21
When the legislative assembly meets tomorrow after a weekend break, it is going to be all heat, dust and storm as the opposition is flexing its muscles to take on the government.
Ever since the assembly has met budget session, the National Conference has been asking for tabling of the Kundal Committee report. On each occasion the government has shown reluctance. Finally on being pressed hard by Abdul Rahim Rather and Ali Mohammad Sagar of National Conference, the Chief Minister agreed last Monday to table the report the next day. However, contrary to the expectations the report did not come to the House and indeed the Health Minister said that the report was in the print.
Interestingly, the before the government could table the report in the House, it has appeared in the media. The opposition has come with two major allegations against the government –one that how report could go the press when government could not share with the House and second that it was deliberately leaked out.
Since on the radar of opposition target are the Finance Minister Tariq Hameed Karra and Forest Minister Qazi Mohammad Afzal, the Peoples Democratic Party patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today summoned both and had a detailed meeting with them at his residence here. Mufti also spoke to the other senior leaders of the party on this issues, sources told EARLY TIMES.
The Health Minister, Mangat Ram Sharma had announced in the Assembly that since the 200 to 300 copies of Kundal report were to be printed it will take two to three days and after that it will be tabled.
He even tried to silence the opposition NC members by saying that committee in its report had not indicted any minister. On this the NC member, Ali Mohd.Sagar,had countered him that he and his colleagues had gone through the report and as such there was no scope for tampering with it.
Whatever may have been the fin dings of the Kundal committee report one thing seems to be definite that Qazi Mohammad Afzal had not been indicted in the report. This is evident from the way the Chief Minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad, restored the forest portfolio to the Qazi who had resigned in protest against divesting him of the forest portfolio. The Chief Minister must have been briefed about the main contents of the report even if he had not gone through it at the time when he ordered restoration of the forest portfolio to the Qazi.
However, the opposition members have reasons for being suspicious of the intentions of the Government as far as tabling the report in original shape in the House is concerned. Some of the opposition NC members are of the opinion that the Government had already issued the calendar for the budget session of the state legislature and days before the commencement of the session the report had been submitted. Hence the Government should have got the report printed a day or two before the start of the Assembly session. |
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