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| Azad's bid to 'reinstate' Saroori faces resistance | | Cabinet Reshuffle | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 20: Notwithstanding the fact that ruling National Conference is not in a mood to go ahead with reshuffle and expansion of the cabinet on account of its own compulsions, its major ally Congress has begun to see stalwarts lobbying for loyalists and favourites. The party high command is however determined to fill the slots on the basis of merit and deserving aspect of the contenders in race in the ensuing exercise . A prominent Kashmir Pandit leader who belongs to Valley is most likely to be fill the slot from Valley in the Congress quota.
Sources said that even as the former Chief Minister and Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has started efforts in direction of pushing hard the reinstatement of the ex minister and his staunch loyalist GA Saroori in the cabinet, this is being resisted by the party in general and PCC leadership in particular on valid grounds. Azad is not only trying Saroori's comeback but he is trying to get back the portfolio Saroori held at the time he was asked to quit in the backdrop of controversy of his daughter's impersonation in medical exams, sources added. But this is being opposed and resisted by PCC Chief and other senior leaders in the party tooth and nail, who contend there are at least three more MLAs in waiting and deserve to be inducted in the council of ministers from the erstwhile Doda, Kishtwar region, from where one slot is to be filled by the Congress. They include Mohammad Sharief Niaz MLA Bhaderwah, Viqar Rasool MLA Banihal and Abdul Majid Wani MLA Doda. The PCC leadership wants party High Command to consider and decide one out of the three MLAs, sources confirmed, adding that this move is giving a big jolt to the Azad faction and his loyalists in the state.
Congress which has two vacancies to fill in the Council of Ministers is however in a mood to fill in the second slot from valley by inducting a prominent Kashmir Pandit leader associated with the party for a long time in the state cabinet, sources said adding that the move would be seen as party command fulfilling the long standing aspiration of community in exile to have some representation in the government and to remove the feeling within the community that they are being excluded from the political dispensation of the state in a systemic way. Sources said there is a strong thinking and though process going on in the party quarters that matter in Delihi that in order to restore the age old bonds of the Pandit community with the Congress party , the move of accommodating a member from within the community and also from the party itself would serve the twin political purpose.
In the context of some speculations doing rounds about induction of GA Mir , MLA Dooru in the state cabinet on Congress slot is also being resisted by the leadership on several counts, sources said. Mir who was a minister in the previous PDP-Congress coalition in the state is facing criminal prosecution in the infamous sex scandal case in which he is yet o be exonerated. Mir has also not contested the 2008 Assembly election on Congress ticket as he was not given mandate by the high command on account of same reason. His name is not even in reckoning, leave alone any serious consideration at any quarter for his induction in the cabinet, sources added. |
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