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| 'Opportunistic' BJP wants rotational CM, more Ministries | | Mufti's failing health | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Dec 30: Amid speculations that Jammu and Kashmir may witness change in guard as doctors have advised the Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed to take rest, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders are trying their best to take advantage of the emerging situation.
Sources told Early Times a few BJP leaders have informed the party high command to strike a better deal with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) which could prove beneficial for the BJP.
Sources revealed that official confirmation about Mufti not being well is making BJP leaders believe that PDP may announce the change of guard in the state and Mufti's daughter, Mehbooba Mufti, who is also the PDP President, may don the shoes of her father.
However, PDP youth president Waheed-ur-Rehman Parra while talking to Early Times said, "Mufti Sayeed is absolutely fine and much better than before. We hope he would recover soon and take the charge."
Insiders said that BJP leaders want the high command to make PDP agree to rotate the Chief Minister's post after 3-years if there is change of guard in the sta... | |
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| 2015 a year of BJP's defeats | | Yearender | | | Early Times Report
jammu, Dec 30: 2014 was the year of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP. The BJP under the leadership of Modi not only scored impressive victories in the Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, Jharkhand and J&K Assembly elections but also created a history by winning 282 Lok Sabha seats in the 543-Member House. Its allies also performed well and won more than Lok Sabha 55 seats.
It appeared the BJP under Narendra Modi would replicate 2014 in 2015 as well, but what happened was to the contrary. 2015 turned out to be a year of massive and humiliating defeats for the BJP. January 2015 saw the BJP biting dust in the Delhi Assembly elections. The BJP could win only a pal... | |
| | | | Power or credibility: BJP in political quagmire | | | | Abodh Sharma
ET Report
jammu, Dec 30: The judgment of the State High Court has brought the saffron party to the cross roads of its political journey in J&K, where it assumed power for the first time in coalition with ideologically opposed PDP. It can either walk out from the coalition advocating that it cannot make a complete somersault from its known position on dual flag or try to hoodwink public opinion through meek, unconvincing statements of its leaders.
The party has evidently chosen the convenient second option to stay in power, but the statements of party leaders are sounding disgustingly unpersuasive. "No flag can be leveled equal to the national flag. It is a decision of the H... | |
| | | | Literate candidates should be encouraged for ULB elections | | | | A B Sharma
Early Times Report
Sunderbani, Dec 30 : The people of various districts and tehsils have demanded the elections to the upcoming Urban Local Bodies in fair and transparent manner with the representatives elected to be literate people who can suffice to the demands of the people in time bound manner.
The reporter of Early Times who shared the ideology of all 295 panchayats of Rajouri had come to the conclusion in consensus that all parties should give names of their candidate who are literate to some extent so that they can be able to converse with the BDOs, tehsildars and other government officers after elections for the works to be done in their panchayats.
" We want th... | |
| | | | In absence of CM, BJP leaders want their loyalists on plum positions | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 30: Residents of Jammu and Kashmir are inquiring about health of Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed but the "power hungry "leaders of BJP are busy these days to mount pressure on the administration to appoint their men on important positions.
Chief Minister is admitted at AIIMS due to chest congestion for the last one week and functioning of the Government is affected in the State but the BJP leadership is trying to take advantage of this fluid situation.
Credible sources in the corridors of power said that BJP leaders have forwarded a list of party leaders to get them appointed as chairpersons of some Corporations and Boards. "Shockingly when everybody i... | |
| | | | JNV Gharota about to finish session sans teachers | | | | G S Asgotra
Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 30: Making mockery of quality education envisaged in Jawahar Navodaya Vidayalayas (JNVs) guidelines, to provide quality education to rural talented students who are enrolled with classes from VI to XII, the academic session at Jawahar Navodaya Vidayalya, Gharota Jammu, is about to complete without teachers.
Students of JNV informed Early Times, "though it has been clearly mentioned in the guidelines of JNVs, by January end, the syllabus of all the subjects was to be completed, the administration so far has failed to provide Physics and Chemistry lectures, as a result of which, around seventy percent syllabus is pending.
"It had Exposed tall ... | |
| | | | 25000 SPOs await wage hike | | | | Danish Muzafar
Early Times Report
Banihal, Dec 30: Despite government of India's and the state government's announcement about enhancement of honorarium of the SPOs around 25000 candidates are still waiting for the hike. The central government has accepted to give Rs 90 Cr for doubling the wages of the SPOs but nothing has moved.
Sources said that following approval to the proposal for increase in wages of about 25,000 SPOs in Jammu and Kashmir by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, the proposal was sent to Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley for concurrence. However, due to delay in follow up action by both previous and present government these SPO's are still facing hardships ... | |
| | | | For BJP, state flag is a non-issue | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 30: The J&K High Court's ruling on the State Flag has triggered a massive controversy in the country. The national media has questioned the ruling and batted for one constitution and one flag. It is an important development in the sense that it has taken upon itself the task of bringing J&K closer to India by attacking the state's separate constitution, as also by attacking and exposing the BJP and its perverse ideology and its insatiable lust for power.
The parties like the Panthers Party have also made it a big issue. In fact, the Panthers have upped their ante against the BJP and charged it with betraying the national cause for the sake of power. It has ... | |
| | | | Alleged torture of inmates in Udhampur jail: HC directs principal distt judge to file report | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Dec 30: The state High Court has directed concerned Principal District Judge to visit Udhampur jail and file within one week a report in light of an application filed by Kashmir High Court Bar Association, alleging torture of the inmates in the prison.
Hearing an application filed by the lawyers' body, Justice Muzaffar Hussain Attar also directed Superintendent of the jail to ensure that the inmates were treated properly and provided all kinds of facilities as permissible under the jail manual.
"The Superintendent, District Jail, Udhampur, must know that the inmates of the jail have the constitutional rights guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution... | |
| | | | Expert Urologist made HoD Surgery, patients suffer | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 30: A senior Urologist has been catapulted to the chair of the Head of Department General Surgery at Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), Jammu while there is no HoD in Urology Surgery department at Super Specialty Hospital Jammu.
According to sources in Health and Medical Education Department HoD of General surgery who is a urologist and has devoted at least 30 years to this stream now is heading the Department of General Surgery at GMCH Jammu just for his influence and alleged backing from some mentors in political sphere. He also failed to share his specialization with those budding medicos and do surgical work in specialization filed.
"Thoug... | |
| | | | Rehab of border residents affected by shelling going on at tardy pace | | | | Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Dec 30: Despite being rebuked by a union minister the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP and Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) government in the state is yet to pull up its socks and ensure proper rehabilitation of people living in the border areas affected by shelling from across the border.
The coalition government in the state is virtually playing 'politics' over this purely humanitarian issue.
The people at helm are non-serious in this matter and as such the affected families have been forced to feel the heat with nobody coming to their rescue.
Minister of State (MoS) in Prime Minister's Office (PMO) Dr. Jitendra Singh had few days back h... | |
| | | | Minister's contractor brother grows 'powerful', browbeats officers | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 30: A J&K minister's contractor brother is in discussion in the government offices here now a days. He enters the offices of officers and forces them to do his works, both genuine and ingenuine. But if any of them offers resistance citing legal hurdles, he browbeats them.
He is often seen moving around with at least half a dozen PSOs in government offices in the district to which he belongs to, according to official sources.
The PSOs were allotted to him after his brother became minister in the BJP-PDP government. In the name of his minister brother, he had taken several benefits from the district administration, sources said.
"He forces officers into doi... | |
| | | | BJP spokesman Arun Gupta's illegal house: more portion demolished | | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 30: The anti-encroachment drive that was launched by the Revenue department in posh Trikuta Nagar here continued on the second day Wednesday. During the drive, the team demolished the remaining boundary wall and some portion of the house of BJP spokesperson Arun Gupta. The structure had been constructed illegally on a nullah. On Tuesday, a team of Revenue officials led by SDM South dismantled the illegal construction raised by BJP spokesman. Besides, the team al... | |
| | | | Mehbooba may take charge soon! | | Mufti on oxygen therapy, being monitored by AIIMS experts | | | Abbas Ali
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Dec 30: Even as Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed has been hospitalized in the national capital since December 24, speculations are rife in political circles here that his daughter and PDP president Mehbooba Mufti may soon replace her father as Chief Minister of the state.
Sources said Mufti, who is admitted at AIIMS, has expressed his desire before senior leaders of BJP that given his ailing health, it was high time to pave way for handover of power to his daughter. Sources said the deliberations are into consideration.
Sources said though last month the BJP leadership had agreed to this plan, shockingly some of the leaders from within the ... | |
| | | | New Year cards at expense of State exchequer | | | | Ishtiyaq Ahmad
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Dec 30: With people craving for basic amenities, most of the PDP-BJP ministers are these days busy in printing the 'New Year' cards at the expense of the state exchequer.
Hundreds of people these days have been visiting to the Civil Secretariat Jammu on an average daily to get redressal of their problems. But majority of them return disappointed as the whole machinery at the Civil Secretariat Jammu has been busy in printing the New Year cards of ministers and bureaucrats that too at the expense of the state exchequer.
Sources said each minister has printed around 1000 to 2000 New Year cards and has withdrawn money from the state exchequer.
So... | |
| | | | New Year cards at expense of State exchequer | | | | Ishtiyaq Ahmad
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Dec 30: With people craving for basic amenities, most of the PDP-BJP ministers are these days busy in printing the 'New Year' cards at the expense of the state exchequer.
Hundreds of people these days have been visiting to the Civil Secretariat Jammu on an average daily to get redressal of their problems. But majority of them return disappointed as the whole machinery at the Civil Secretariat Jammu has been busy in printing the New Year cards of ministers and bureaucrats that too at the expense of the state exchequer.
Sources said each minister has printed around 1000 to 2000 New Year cards and has withdrawn money from the state exchequer.
So... | |
| | | | Use of bogus voters in LAHDC polls surfaces after 3 months | | | | Javaid Naikoo
Early Times Report
PULWAMA, Dec 30: Almost after three months of Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development council (LAHDC) elections of District Leh, alleged use of bogus voting surfaced after one independent candidate wrote to authorities for time bound probe and Re-polling on Diskit Seat.
One independent candidate Tsewang Rigzin of Diskit-Leh constituency who in a triangular contest in LAHDC Polls was defeated by another independent candidate Tsering Angchuk told early times that Angchuk allegedly with the help of few influential people of the area used bogus voters to defeat him.
Rigzin who claims use of 200 to 300 bogus voters by his rival in LAHDC-Leh polls held in the month... | |
| | | | Money drawn against bogus MGNREGA works, fake land leveling' v Major scam surfaces in RDD's Qimoh Block | | | | Saahil Suhail
Early Times Report
Kulgam, Dec 30: In this southern district, a major scam has surfaced in Rural Development Department's Qimoh Block where blue-eyed contractors in nexus with officials of the department have withdrawn lakhs of rupees from bogus works.
Inhabitants of Baan village of Kulgam on Wednesday alleged that lakhs of rupees have been drawn against fake works executed under the centrally sponsored MGNREGA in the area.
The locals said they had sought information from Block Development Office (BDO) Qaimoh under State RTI Act regarding works executed in the village by local Panchayat.
"However, the details provided by the BDO mismatch on the ground. On papers, scores ... | |
| | | | PHE ground water division Srinagar drains exchequer | | | | Avinash Azad
Jammu, Dec 30: A handful of contractors have hijacked tendering process in PHE's ground water division Srinagar.
Sources in PHE informed Early Times that in last 26 years bleeding state exchequer, around 5000 crores rupees have been drained by the mafia. "For last 26 years, since 1989 the PHE Ground Water Division, Srinagar is working inviting tenders in fraudulent manners. While issuing tenders only six contractors are participating, as they adopt pool system for drilling/ installing of water pumps in the Kashmir Valley", alleged sources, demanding probe into bungling to unearth the malpractice in the division.
"Out of these six contractors, one member of each contractor ha... | |
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