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| Kavinder Gupta is still Dy CM? | | |  Ishtiyaq Ahmad
Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 2: Over five months have passed since the end of PDP-BJP government, Kavinder Gupta still seems in dilemma as he has installed hoarding outside his house in Jammu identifying himself as deputy chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir.
The PDP-BJP alliance collapsed on June 19 as the BJP yanked support from the then Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti's People's Democratic Party (PDP). Since then the state is under Governor rule and the assembly has also been dissolved.
However, Kavinder Gupta, who was then deputy chief minister, has erected hoardings mentioning himself still the deputy chief minister.
Even Jammu Municipal Corporation has not bothered to remove hoardings of former deputy chief minister.
A local resident Vijay Kumar said any hoarding on the road diverts attention of commuters. He said sticking bills and hoardings must be avoided.
"Such hoardings are misleading common masses. The state is under Governor still Kavinder Gupta calls himself deputy chief minister of the state," he said.
The commuters are also surprised with this hoarding. "When I saw hoardings, I got shocked as Kavinder Gupta is unaware that PDP-BJP government ended in June," said Manoj.
Earlier in April, the then Jammu and Kashmir Assembly speaker Kavinder Gupta replaced Nirmal Singh as deputy chief minister.
The new BJP faces, who were sworn in as ministers in April were the then party's state unit chief Satpal Sharma and the MLAs from Kathua and adjoining Sambha, Rajiv Jasrotia and Devinder Kumar Manyal, respectively.
The BJP also upgraded then Sunil Sharma to the rank of a cabinet minister. The PDP members included in the cabinet were Mohd Khalil Band, MLA from Pulwama, and Mohd Ashraf Mir, MLA from Sonwar.
The BJP had dropped Nirmal Singh, health minister Bali Bhagat and Minister of State (MoS) for Tourism Priya Sethi.
The saffron party had on 17 April asked all its nine ministers in the PDP-BJP government in the state to submit their resignations to enable bringing in new faces in the two-year-old Mufti cabinet.
When contacted, officials of the Jammu Municipal Corporation expressed ignorance over hoardings still dotting some roads. They said hoardings would be removed soon as the matter had been brought to their notice. |
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