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| Would CAPD minister own responsibility and resign? | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Jan 26: It is now for the last 20 days that the crisis created by the shortages of cooking gas and kerosene oil in the Valley has not eased. This despite the fact that the State government claims 60000 LPG cylinders and 2.50 lakh litres of kerosene having reached the Valley through the Jammu-Srinagar highway after it was restored for traffic recently.
The shortages have resulted in widespread public anger with consumers demanding action against those directly and indirectly responsible for the deplorable situation.
In any other State, the first to accept responsibility would be the minister heading the CAPD who would have resigned on moral grounds.
In our case, the minister went public claiming there were sufficient stocks of both kerosene and LPG in the Valley. The minister also dismissed media reports when these first appeared in local newspapers reporting these shortages. The State Chief Minister Omar Abdullah was misinformed about the stock position of both LPG cylinders and kerosene oil in the Valley. Now the Chief Minister has ordered a probe to fix responsibility on those responsible for such an unprecedented shortage. The State government has blamed the oil companies saying that they were supposed to maintain sufficient stocks here which would be used during the blockade of the Jammu-Srinagar highway.
It is fair to fix responsibility on those who failed the people in the Valley during the bitter winter cold, but what is the minister heading the CAPD supposed to do? Isn't the minister responsible to ensure physical verification of LPG and kerosene stocks before he committed on the electronic and other media that the news about shortages of LPG and kerosene were just figments of the rumour mongers' imagination? The first thing that needs to done before fixing responsibility on the oil companies and the officials of the CAPD is to ask the minister to either own the moral responsibility for misinforming the people and the Chief Minister and step down on moral grounds. Or else, the minister should offer an apology both to the people and the Chief Minister who he misinformed and thereby kept in the dark about the actual stock position in the Valley. If the minister now claims that even he had been misinformed by his own officials then also he has no moral right to continue in the chair. |
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