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Committee of ministers to end stalemate over KPS structuring 12/12/2016 11:00:54 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Dec 12: Even as Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on December 9 left a Cabinet meeting here midway after a rift with a BJP minister over police service restructuring, the twin parties in alliance in the state have decided to constitute a "committee of ministers" to end the stalemate. Sources said the leaders of the two parties recently discussed the matter threadbare and resolved that there was a need to setup committee comprising of three ministers from each side to look into the unilateral demand of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ministers to restructure the system of grant of promotions to the Kashmir Police Service (KPS) officers cadre. Sources said the BJP ministers conveyed to the ally PDP that the way the Cabinet meeting was held on last Friday was not the way the then Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed would take decisions. Both the parties unanimously endorsed that late Mufti would pick up the issue with the allies much before the holding of the Cabinet meetings and would the clear doubts if any over his plans. "He knew the skills of lobbying and diplomacies as needed to run the government and would not jump to decisions," said a Cabinet minister. "But what happened at the recently held Cabinet meeting was that PDP ministers including CM had not taken us into confidence over the KPS issue and this created controversy because the agenda came to us as a shocker," said a senior BJP leader, asking not to be identified. He said the PDP ministers have been requested to uphold the "Mufti-style" of holding Cabinet meetings where issues are resolved before holding of such sensitive meetings. A PDP minister endorsed that the agendas for the recent Cabinet were set hurriedly as a result of which the ministers from the other party looked uncomfortable to give a nod to the plans. Last week Mehb-ooba got angry over the issue of KPS structuring and immediately left the meeting hall and the Secretariat. As soon as the CM left the Secretariat, the meeting was shifted to the office of Deputy CM Dr Nirmal Singh. Subsequently the same evening a delegation of the ministers headed by Singh left for the official residence of the CM, where the two parties held detailed discussions. "Thereafter several rounds of talks have been held," the sources said.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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