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| Cong, NC count heads; PDP meeting today | | RS POLLS | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 10: While Congress and the National Conference have issued whips to their members to remain present in Jammu for next three days and cast votes in favour of joint nominees of the coalition, the Peoples Democratic Party has convened a meeting here tomorrow to frame strategy for the Rajya Sabha elections.
Meanwhile, the assembly secretariat has notified that polling for the two vacant seats of Rajya Sabha shall be held in the Central Hall of the Legislative Assembly complex on February 13 between 9AM and 4PM.
The legislature party of the PDP is meeting here tomorrow to form strategies over various issues that bother the people of the State. The PDP Chief, Mehbooba Mufti, will preside over the meeting.
Party sources said that the meeting has been convened to discuss ways and means for highlighting the PDP's political and economic agenda on the floor of the Assembly.
Source said that during the meeting the party will decide whether its main political agenda of self-rule will be raised in the state legislature in the form of a resolution or the PDP will seek a debate on it. It would also plan its strategy on seeking amendment to draconian laws, including the Armed Forces (special powers) Act in force in Jammu and Kashmir. Besides, the party will raise afresh its demand for demilitarization which could prove a key to peace in the state. The party will also try to persuade the state and the central Governments for opening more border routes in order to promote greater people to people contact on either side of the LOC.
Since the budget session of the Assembly is to start from February 25, the PDP will raise the issue of employees demanding implementation of the 6th pay commission report, if by that time the state Government had not taken any step. The PDP favour implementation of the 6th pay commission recommendations and also wants the Government to initiate measures for resolving the problem of unemployment. Indications are that the PDP, which has 21 members in the Assembly, will make the ensuing budget session stormy as it has plans of raising various public interest issues on the floor of the House.
Meanwhile, according to a notification issued by the Returning Officer for the biennial election to the Council of States (Rajya Sabha) by the elected Members of the Jammu & Kashmir Legislative Assembly, the poll to fill the two seats in the Council of States on the retirement of two members on November 29, 2008 will be taken on February 13, 2009 from 9 A.M. to 4 P.M. in the Central Hall of the legislature Complex, Jammu. |
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