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| Congress calculating options | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | June 29
WHAT HAPPENED ON SUNDAY
• SASB apparently buried unsung
• Governor transfers Yatra to Govt
• Claim on forest land surrendered
• CM takes charge of Yatra affairs
• BJP, others react, call for agitation
• Azad, Soz meet Governor
• Separatists reject Govt measures
• PDP says Azad confusing situation
• Rajnath calls for President’s rule
• NC meeting called off after differences
• Protests held in Jammu against Governor
KEYS TO DEADLOCK
Panthers Party, CPI(M), Hakeem Mohammad Yaseen, Usman Majid, Manohar Lal, Ghulam Hassan Mir, Ghulam Hassan Khan, Sarfaraz Khan, Shoaib Lone, Raman Mattoo, Ghulam Mohiuddin Sofi
Running under severe crisis of stability, the Congress leadership is making all efforts to ensure survival of government which has been reduced to minority by pulling out of the Peoples Democratic Party.
Even though the Congress leadership in the state including Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and PCC Chief Saif-ud-Din Soz sounded confident of sailing through the constitutional crisis but observers saw an imminent threat to the government. Both Azad and Soz have been maintaining that there was not threat to the government and they had sufficient numbers to prove majority.
In back drop of the crisis, the Chief Minister and PCC Chief Soz today called on the Governor NN Vohra at Srinagar Raj Bhawan. The two hours long meeting between the three was described by the Raj Bhawan spokesman as a part of the constitution consultation process.
Sources said that the Congress leadership is trying to manage the required numbers to save the government from falling. A close aide of PCC Chief Soz told EARLY TIMES over phone from Srinagar this evening that the Congress is making efforts to prove majority before the Governor even before he calls for a floor test. “We are confident of doing this and our consultations are on with various people,” he said.
The Congress has supported of 29 members, including 28 of its elected MLAs and eight associate members who are believed to be with the Congress in any case. The party is now reportedly banking on Panthers Party, CPI(M), independent legislators and some dissidents within the Peoples Democratic Party. Constitutional experts were still studying the status of PDP Ghulam Hassan Mir and its expelled MLA Ghulam Hassan Khan on whether they can support Congress without loosing their assembly membership.
Earlier in the morning speaking to a television channel, the PDP president Mehbooba Mufti had said that her party had respected the public sentiments and does not want fall of the government. However, later in the day she retracted from her statement. Sources said that the PDP is closely monitoring the situation to ensure fall of government.
National Conference president Omar Abdullah played it clean saying that his party wants the Azad government to survive full term but he ruled out any support during the floor test.
Meanwhile reports said that close aides of Chief Minister and NC chief Omar Abdullah had a meeting to discuss the issue. If this meeting had any breakthrough, the NC might as well abstain from the floor test when government as asked to prove the majority. NC sources, however, ridiculed such speculations.
Earlier today on the recommendation of Chief Minister, Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad, Jammu and Kashmir Governor Mr N N Vohra has accepted the resignations of nine members of his Council of Ministers with immediate effect. They are Muzaffar Hussain Beigh, A A Zargar, Qazi Mohammad Afzal, Tariq Hamid Qarra, Mohammad Dilawar Mir, Javed Mustaffa Mir, Peer Mohammad Hussain, Mohammad Khalil Band and Manjeet Singh. |
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