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| Peerzada resigns as Education Minister | | Sheikh Bashir being removed as Chairman BOSE; Naseem or Tanvir may get charge on Monday | | Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
srinagar, Feb 10: Becoming second successive casualty for Congress in Omar Abdullah's Cabinet after Ghulam Mohammad Saroori in 2010, high profile mainstream politician and Minister of Education, Peerzada Mohammad Sayeed, has finally moved out of the Council of Ministers in Jammu and Kashmir, unceremoniously. Responding to directions from AICC, communicated to him through General Secretary incharge J&K Mohan Praskash, Peerzada today submitted his letter of resignation by fax to the Congress and UPA supremo Sonia Gandhi.
In days of submission of its report to Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, beleaguered Peerzada today faxed a letter to Congress President Sonia Gandhi. Highly placed political sources disclosed to Early Times that within hours of Chief Minister's discussion with the AICC leadership in New Delhi, party's General Secretary incharge Jammu and Kashmir asked Peerzada to "immediately" send his resignation to Mrs Gandhi. Facing a flak from a number of Opposition parties, including BJP, over "protecting corrupt and tainted Ministers", AICC leadership agreed with Omar that retaining Peerzada in the Government would prove politically disastrous for the coalition.
According to these sources, there was complete unanimity between NC and Congress leadership that retaining Peerzada and sacking Saroori in identical matters could not be justified. Even after Peerzada had been isolated by both factions of the Congress, promoted by J&KPCC President Saifuddin Soz and union Minister of Health Ghulam Nabi Azad, some of the leaders in the coalition were in favour of "restraint". They were calling for registration of FIR and a formal investigation by Crime Branch. According to them, Peerzada should have been asked to quit only after his person was found involved in the J&K BOSE Examgate. Interestingly, NC as well as the opposition PDP, did not seem to be enthusiastic over Peerzada's resignation, for varied reasons.
With a large number of political and non-political organisations, NGOs and several organs of civil society joining hands to pull down the Minister, NC-Congress coalition decided to remove Peerzada from the Council of Ministers. As already reported in the last several days, Peerzada had fallen in the eye of a storm on account of his foster son Imam Souban's use of unfair means in Class 10th examination in the year 2009. Last fortnight media had published material evidence of the unfair means made available to the candidate besides details how BOSE authorities and men in Civil Secretariat had covered up the scandal despite desire of action from Raj Bhawan and Chief Minister's Secretariat.
Following publication of media reports and varied demands of action and investigation from different quarters, Chief Minister had ordered Crime Branch to conduct a preliminary inquiry and check veracity of the reports against Peerzada and his son. Crime Branch found half-a-dozen officials as well as Minister of Education involved in the Examgate. Seeking resignation from the Minister was sequel to Chief Minister's overnight discussion on the subject with AICC leadership in the union capital. |
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