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| Helpless Omar prefers status quo on cabinet reshuffle? | | | Early Times Report
jammu, Jan 10: If some media reports are to be believed the State Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has once again decided to put the much awaited cabinet reshuffle on the hold.
Succumbing to pressures mounted on him from within the NC and the inability of his Congress alliance partners to come to some consensus on the crucial issue, it is now reliably learnt that the much talked about reshuffle of portfolios in the State cabinet has been deferred by the Chief Minister.
After completing three years in office, Omar Abdullah was likely to announce a major reshuffle in his cabinet. While some new faces were believed to be waiting for their induction into the cabinet, public opinion for showing the door to some of the known tainted ministers had gained currency. It was generally argued that the Chief Minister had decided to give a facelift to his council of ministers by dropping some of the known tainted ministers. Some old stalwarts within the NC had also started hectic lobbying for finding a berth in the reshuffled council of ministers. Setting all speculations at rest, Omar Abdullah as per some media reports has now decided to continue the status quo on this crucial issue. The decision to defer the cabinet reshuffle has once again proved the inability of the State government to come to grips with reality.
The continuation of some of the tainted ministers in the cabinet simply proves the abject surrender of the Chief Minister before the powerful coterie of ministers who have been virtually running the various departments under their control as fiefdoms. Demanding huge sums of money for transferring officials and giving them lucrative postings against gratifications received by the ministers, is becoming a rule rather than an exception in J&K.
The serious business of running the administrative departments has now been almost converted into a full fledged business enterprise by the corrupt ministers in the State. Transfers are ordered not on merits or administrative requirements, but merely on the strength of money offered by the corrupt officials. This has caused a sort of administrative paralysis in the State where the people have become the final casualty of the callousness exhibited by the corrupt ministers.
Why has the Chief Minister preferred to be a typical status quoist on this issue? What are the pressures within the NC and the Congress those the Chief Minister has been unable to handle effectively? Answers to these questions have become clear by the decision of the Chief Minister which says the cabinet reshuffle would be made only after it is needed. Doesn't the mere fact that serious allegations of corruption are being leveled against some of his ministers reason enough for the Chief Minister's personal clean image to sack the corrupt ministers? Continuing to have some of the corrupt ministers on board only proves the helplessness of the man who has the constitutional authority to show them the door. Helplessness has never been a virtue for effective governance and it will not serve any purpose other than convince the people they have nobody to turn to against the powerful coterie of the corrupt ministers in the State cabinet. |
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