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| Sir, do you want us to shut shop, Amar Singh Club members ask CM | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, SEP 24: Clubs are being restored the life they lost during insurgency in Kashmir, but Jammu’s only social hangout venue is still awaiting the Chief Minister’s attention.
The Amar Singh Club –almost a second home to the social elite of the winter capital city –come across a plethora of problems every evening. But the common refrain stops at the same office where the Club members have no say –the Chief Minister’s office. The members are now asking the Chief Minister if he wants them to shut the Club.
As already reported in this newspaper, the Club management is in a perpetual handicapped position for last nine months as it has not been able to elect a complete governing body for the lack of quorum. The quorum is lacking because the Chief Minister is required to nominate four members but the incumbent CM is not showing any interest.
Club members say that repeated requests and reminders have been sent to the Chief Minister’s office for nominating four members, as required by the constitution, but not even an acknowledgement has come back. Eleven elected members and allied office bearers vow that in case Chief Minister is busy and could not find time to nominate four members for the Club then isn’t it possible to appoint any bureaucrat for the task?. They suggested that Chief Minister should rather issue orders to the existing quorum to constitute full fledged set up by appointing secretary at their own to streamline the effective working of the club which is under shambles for the last nine months.
When reached, the Political Advisor to the Chief Minister Devinder Rana suggested to bring the issue to notice of Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister. The Principal Secretary Khursheed Ganai dismissed the issue as a prerogative of the Chief Minister. The Club members are, however, confused in this terminology of prerogatives and procedures and are left with no options.
The members are now questioning that if the prevailing situations had been faced by any protocol institution in the Valley, would the CM’s deliverance had remained similar? Entire elite class including industrialists, retired bureaucrats, advocates, doctors, engineers and army personals are subjected to suffering merely because of ignorance of Chief Minister’s Secretariat for nomination four members, said one of the members and added that it is for the first time since the inception of club that for nominating four members the Chief Minister of the day has taken more than nine months. He said that problem needs to get looked into as soon as possible.
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