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| Ladakh mis(adventure) costs Farooq Ministry? | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 22: The National Conference misadventure in Ladakh –first allowing a partyman to contest election against coalition nominee and parading him at party platform upon his victory –seems to have cost Farooq Abdullah his ministerial berth in Manmohan Singh government.
The disappointment in National Conference was quite evident as an upset Dr Farooq Abdullah flew out of India to South Africa to watch the cricket match and the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah hardly minced any words in expressing the displeasure.
Omar told a news channel that the Cabinet formation is the prerogative of Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh along with Congress President Sonia Gandhi and they will make their own choices. Omar had yesterday stated that the NC was not hankering for any post but it would have been nice if the Congress had informed the party whether Farooq was "in or out".
“The NC was not hankering for any ministerial berth but it would have been nice if the Congress would have informed the party whether Farooq Abdullah was to be included in the Cabinet or not,” said Omar. He also said the NC will be joining the government at a later stage suggesting that he would be inducted into the cabinet when the first expansion
takes place.
“We know that it is difficult to run a coalition government. We will talk on joining the government later. Farooq Abdullah and Prime Minister will discuss the issue. We have aligned with UPA for the development of Jammu and Kashmir. If we are invited to attend the swearing in ceremony, surely somebody would represent. We only initiated saying that if invited we would join the government,” added Omar.
Farooq left for South Africa to watch the IPL early Friday after the UPA failed to take a decision on a cabinet berth for him. ‘I always told you people (the media) earlier that it is the prerogative of the prime minister and the chairperson of the UPA to decide, Abdullah told to an electronic news channel when asked if he was unhappy that he was not offered a cabinet seat.
The prime minister was very kind, he spoke to me last night and told me they wanted to sort out the difficulties with the DMK, Abdullah added. "It doesn't mean the world has come to an end. There's always the future," he said on a philosophical note. His son and Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah was not so sanguine, however.
He told a news channel Thursday night that his father, who had been in politics long enough had certainly not expected this from the UPA. He is quite happy and is leaving for South Africa. This won't bother him.
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