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| CABINET EXAPNSION: Fate of ministerial aspirants continue to hang in balance | | |
Srinagar, October 7 : In the absence of any clear cut understanding between the coalition partners over filling four existing vacancies in the Azad cabinet fate of several ministerial candidates continue to hang in balance.
It is not yet clear why the delay has been caused as Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad soon after the cabinet expansion made it clear that he would soon fill rest of the three vacancies.
Following resignation by Deputy Chief Minister Muzaffar Hussain Baigs one more vacancy was created.
The fact that even PDP has not till date staked its claim for elevation of one of its ministers to the rank of Deputy Chief Minister and for filling one Mr Baigs post has delayed second round of expansion.
Informed sources said that Mr Azad wanted to induct one of the four MLAs belonging to the Panthers Party in the cabinet but he could not decide following continued rift between Prof. Bhim Singh,Chief of the Panthers party and Mr Harsh Dev Singh,a former Education Minister. Prof. Singh is said to have expressed his wish of getting inducted in the cabinet if the Chief Minister desired to give a berth to one of the legislators in the council of ministers.
According to General Secretary PDP, Mr Nizamuddin Bhat, the PDP’s share in the council of ministers is short of one.
He told Kashmir Independent Press today that there were 10 posts of chairmen of public corporations and Boards vacant in the state. ”We have conveyed to the Chief Minister that PDP nominees should be given an opportunity to occupy four of the 10 posts of head of the corporations and Boards, ”he said.
Mr Bhat said that the exercise on picking up right people for heading these corporations and Boards had been started and “I expect the vacant posts to be filled within next one month.” |
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