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| Cong: Land transfer was okayed by Qazi; plans white paper on PDP’ role | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | June 25
Even as the PDP leadership is contemplating quitting the Government, the Congress plans to issue a white paper on the role the PDP ministers played in okaying the diversion of 800 Kanals of land to the Amarnath Shrine Board and later raising a hue and cry over the issue.
According to a Congress minister in state cabinet, “We are finalizing the white paper on the role of the PDP as far as its roar on diversion of land to the shrine board is concerned.
"Confirming the development, highly placed sources in the party said the Congress is contemplating to issue the white paper listing the role the PDP ministers.” He said that the issue pertaining to diversion of the forest land to the shrine Board had been first okayed by the then forest Minister, Qazi Mohd Afzal”.
Senior Government functionaries said that when the matter was referred to the Law Minister, Muzaffar Hussain Baig, he too had okayed it in writing on the file. They said had the PDP ministers objected to the land diversion the matter might have been dropped. They said issuance of the white paper depended on the stand the PDP leadership would adopt.
Already the PDP leadership has threatened that it would pull out of the Government in case the land transfer order was not cancelled by June 30. The PDP had, at one stage, decided to quit the Government but the last minute meeting between N N Vohra and Mufti Mohd Sayeed in Delhi yesterday is believed to have defused the situation. Vohra brought Mufti with him when the new Governor flew to Srinagar today to take the oath. Later the Deputy Chief Minister, Muzaffar Hussain Baig, had a two-hour meeting with the Mufti at the latter's residence where the two discussed whether to drop the threat of pulling out of the Government or stay put.
Meanwhile, the state Government plans to reconstitute the Shrine Board by nominating some Kashmiri Pandit leaders and some prominent citizens of Jammu in place of six non-state subject members. The government is expected to recommend the same to the governor. This is the demand of the PDP and the separatists, the latter favouring handing over the management of the yatra to Kashmiri Pandits. |
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