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| AZAD LIKLELY TO EXPAND HIS COUNCIL OF MINISTERS BETWEEN JULY 22-25 | | | Jammu, July 10 : The chances of second round of expansion of 13 member Ghulam Nabi Azad cabinet has once again brightened.
Highly placed sources in the congress party confided that prospects of second round of cabinet expansion between July 22-25 has once again raised hopes of jobless legislators belonging to the ruling coalition, awaiting their turn to occupy the ministerial berth since November 2005.
Sources pointed put that hectic lobbying was already going on in the power circles for the ministerial berth.
Coalition partners including PDP,JKPP and others were also busy shortlisting names of their party nominees before the expansion.
Inside reports suggest after names of few legislators figured in the Srinagar sex scandal the state government decided to postpone the cabinet expansion. But now as the probe in the case was not nearing completion and chances are that it may linger on for some more time a section of the leaders in the state have been able to convince the chief minister to go in for the second round of cabinet expansion.
Sources said that PDP patron Mufti Mohd Sayeed was also keen to go in for the second round of cabinet expansion after the completion of the assembly by-polls but unforeseen circumstances stalled cabinet expansion on number of occasions.He has also prepared list of names of party candidates for the expansion,sources said.
It may be mentioned that the second round of cabinet expansion is long due in Jammu and Kashmir and according to sources was postponed on several occasions due to political compulsions and unforeseen circumstances in the state.
At present up to 12 vacancies are still there in the 13 member council of ministers of Chief Minister GhulamNabi Azad.
After assuming charge on Nov 2,2005 Azad had announced that he would keep size of ministery very small and had also introduced amendment bill in the state assembly reducing size of the jumbo ministry.
As per the formula, the size of the council of ministers should not exceed 20 per cent of the total strength of the both the houses of the state legislature.
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