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| “Dismissed” Saroori lobbies to again get Cabinet berth with his boss’s “secret” support | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Aug 2: While it appears to be an uphill task for the “dismissed” Works Minister GM Saroori to again get a berth in the State Cabinet notwithstanding the hectic lobbying he was said to be involved in, a Union Minister was alleged to be secretly pleading his case.
The Union Minister was also stated to be the biggest hurdle in the much-delayed Cabinet expansion in the State as he was in search for an opportune moment to again push Saroori’s name for a Ministerial berth.
Saroori was removed from the Cabinet unceremoniously by the Congress high command after his daughter’s name had figured in the MBBS/BDS entrance test scam. He was alleged to have used his influence in arranging some other girl to appear on behalf of his daughter in the entrance test.
PCC sources, who were closely associated with the process of selecting most suitable Congress MLA from Doda district for inducting him into the Cabinet whenever a reshuffle takes place, said the dejected Saroori was trying hard to again become a Minister, and, if possible, to get the Works Ministry again.
Saroori had refused to resign as the Works Minister after a girl was caught impersonating his daughter in the MBBS/BDS entrance test examination held at a Jammu University hall.
Following his refusal, he was dismissed from the Cabinet for defying the party high command orders.
Sources said even as the Union Minister wanted to again see Saroori as a Minister, Sonia Gandhi had made it clear that “tainted” faces in Congress would not be made Ministers as it “tarnishes the party image in public”.
Sources said on New Delhi’s directions to find out another MLA from Doda who could be made a Minister, PCC was said to have recommended the name of Bhaderwah MLA and senior Congress leader Mohammad Sharief Niaz.
But New Delhi was still to act on the PCC recommendation in this regard, the sources added.
Niaz, who had an unblemished track record in the State politics, was a Power Minister in the PDP-Congress Government led by Mufti Mohammad Syeed as Chief Minister.
Meanwhile, angered by the inordinate delay in inducting a Doda MLA in the Cabinet, some PCC block presidents and their supporters had, in a meeting held at Bhaderwah in the recent past, called upon all MLAs from the district to resign.
Sources cited internal bickerings and conspiracies, which were at their peak in the Congress unit of Bhaderwah, as another reason behind the delay in Cabinet expansion.
The bitter infighting in the Doda Congress became public in the last State Assembly elections when some Congress leaders and workers had worked against Niaz. No action was taken even as PCC had written against them to the party high command in New Delhi. |
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