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| Ex-Banker may go to Rajya Sabha | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, May 17: The former chairman Jammu and Kashmir Bank, Mohammad Yusuf Khan is likely to be the National Conference candidate for the Rajya Sabha seat that has fallen vacant after Dr Farooq Abdullah was elected to the Lok Sabha. Sources in the National Conference said that Khan had been tipped for getting elected to the Legislative Council when several seats were vacant but Khan had declined. Sources said that Khan wanted to be in the Rajya Sabha so that he could play a bigger role. Party sources said that the National Conference leadership has not made up its mind as far as nominating Khan for the Rajya Sabha seat because some senior leaders including Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, wanted a senior party man to be the NC nominee for the Rajya Sabha seat. However, Dr Farooq Abdullah is said to have promised Khan that he would be fielded for the Rajya Sabha seat after he (Farooq) was elected to the Lok Sabha. Reports also indicated that in case Khan was elected to the Rajya Sabha he could be taken as a minister of state in the union council of ministers because the UPA Government would utilize his experience in banking and industries.
Farooq Abdullah wants a t rusted man to get the Rajya Sabha seat so that the interest of the National Conference in the upper House was guarded. This time the Congress has two leaders in the Rajya Sabha, Saif-ud-Din Soz and Gulam Nabi Azad.
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