news details |
|
|
| Coalition partners meeting Monday to review progress | | Assembly session begins July 27 | | ZAFAR CHOUDHARY
Jammu, June 19: As the National Conference-Congress coalition government runs into its sixth month in office, with no noticeable change on the ground, the leaders of both ruling parties have decided to sit across the table for a review of the past and setting out agenda for the future.
Top leaders of both parties including Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah will meet Monday in Srinagar to review performance of the government over past six months and discuss the issues to be pursued in near future. This will be the first high level meeting of both coalition partners in past six months as until now the partners in the coalition have been seen pulling government in their own directions.
It may be mentioned here that the present coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir does not have even a Common Minimum Programme of governance and there is no properly outlined agenda to be followed. Both partners in the ruling coalition, the National Conference and the Congress, had made different sets of promises with the people during assembly elections last year and a follow-up at anyone of them is yet to be seen.
Sources said that the meeting has been essentially convened at behest of the Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad to discuss with the National Conference leadership the commitments both parties made with electorate during Assembly and Lok Sabha elections.
One of the main commitments both coalition partners made during the elections was increase in retirement age of the state government employees from existing 58 years to 60 years. The Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad had been more particular about this commitment as he said at every election rally that he was about to hike the retirement age as Chief Minister last year when his coalition partner Peoples Democratic Party pulled rug and the government collapsed.
The meeting also assumes significance in view of the upcoming session of state legislature and presentation of the annual budget. Both coalition partners will have to take a joint view of the business to be fixed up for upcoming session.
Earlier today the the Governor, NN Vohra, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him under section 53 of the Constitution of Jammu and Kashmir, has summoned both the Houses of the State Legislature to meet at Srinagar on Monday, the 27th July, 2009. The Governor approved the proposal of the State Government to this effect today.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
