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| Kundal’s fate still shrouded in mystery | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | June 3
Uncertainty is still prevailing over the induction of outgoing Chief Secretary BR Kundal as Minister in the Ghulam Nabi Azad led cabinet.
Reliable sources told EARLY TIMES that no fresh communiqué has been sent from the Chief Minister’s office to the Raj Bhawan about the fresh schedule for swearing in ceremony. “We are yet to get any official word from the government though all preparations are in place”, said a Raj Bhawan official.
The last minute postponement of the scheduled swearing-in ceremony of B.R. Kundal as cabinet minister, who had applied for voluntary retirement as state chief secretary, has created a piquant administrative situation in the summer capital.
The question begging an answer is whether Kundal, can continue to function as the state's chief secretary after having made his political loyalty public. The chief minister's secretariat has so far not announced the acceptance of his voluntary retirement.
All preparations for his induction into the state cabinet were in place Monday evening with even a room furnished for him in the civil secretariat here. He was tipped to hold the prestigious power development portfolio as a Congress minister. S.S. Kapoor, an IAS officer of 1974 batch, was tipped to be the next chief secretary.
What otherwise looked like a routine postponement of the swearing ceremony has now snowballed into a big controversy within the local Congress.
Sources within the party said that some senior leaders of the party, especially those belonging to the Jammu region, had raised their voice against Kundal's induction in the state cabinet maintaining that it would set a bad precedent for those party men who had toiled for years without getting a ministerial berth. |
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