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| Omar joins office today, Ministers await charges | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 8: After his return from Srinagar, Omar Abdullah is likely to move into the Civil Secretariat in the winter capital Friday first time as Chief Minister.
His nine Cabinet Minister are also likely to get their much awaited charges of department by Friday evening. However, sources in both National Conference and Congress were unable to confirm this. They cryptically maintained that discussions on distributions of portfolios were final stage.
After his swearing in on Sunday, Omar had gone to New Delhi the next day to attend the Chief Ministers’ conclave on security. It was there that he got to know about demise of former Chief Minister GM Shah and rushed to Srinagar where besides attending last rites of the departed leader he also took round of a city hospital and chaired a meeting of Divisional Officers.
The Chief Minister returned Jammu this evening where he had a meeting with senior officers of Civil Administration and Police and met several delegations from different parts of the region.
Sources said that the Chief Minister will be attending his Civil Secretariat office tomorrow where he will be presented formal guard of honour before moving into the office. Incidentally, tomorrow is the last working day of present week.
For fifth day after swearing in ceremony suspense continued over allotment of portfolios to the Ministers of Omar Abdullah Cabinet. Sources said that the alliance partners, National Conference and the Congress were yet to decide on distribution of departments. When asked if there were differences between partners on distribution of departments, sources said, “there are no differences, the matter is being discussed and decided”.
Meanwhile, it is learnt that the coalition partners are yet to decide and agree upon modalities of their governance. In their election manifestos the Congress and the National Conference had come up key proposals and both parties were yet to discuss and identify the common areas for implementation as government.
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