| BJP high command to take final call today in Delhi | | Reshuffle of ministries, induction of new faces | | Ishtiyaq Ahmad | 4/24/2018 1:28:21 PM |
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Early Times Report
srinagar, Apr 23: The Bhartiya Janta Party is all set to induct new faces into the Jammu and Kashmir cabinet as Party top brass is meeting with the Jammu and Kashmir BJP leaders in a crucial meeting at New Delhi.
Sources told early times that BJP President Amit Shah along with other top leaders of the party is scheduled to meet the Jammu and Kashmir BJP top brass today afternoon. "Some ministers are likely to shift to the party organization while some party functionaries are to be included into the cabinet," sources claimed.
Meanwhile, sources said that while two new faces are certain in place of Ganga and Singh, some more could be inducted as axe is likely to fall on few incumbent ministers. The portfolios of Ganga and Singh are temporarily being held by Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh.
Sources claimed that speaker Kavinder Gupta, State Party president Sat Sharma, Shakti Raj Parihar, Surinder Ambardar, are in a race to become ministers.
However sources could not confirm who is to be dropped from the council of minister by the BJP High command.
Sources in the BJP said the decision to seek resignations from ministers was based purely on performance. "The Prime Minister and the party President has assessed the work of the ministers, and then have taken a call on some of them," a senior BJP leader close to the leadership told early times on condition of anonymity.
Sources said that Deputy Chief Minister, Nirmal Singh, State president Sat Sharma, general secretary Ashok Koul have already reached Delhi on Monday while more leaders are reaching today morning to meet the party president and other top party functionless.
"If everything goes well, the reshuffle and oath taking ceremony for new faces would be carried out on 25 April," sources claimed.
Sources said that the reshuffle was necessitated after two BJP ministers Chandra Prakash Ganga and Lal Singh were forced to resign from the council of ministers following outrage over their presence in rally in Kathua to support the accused in rape and murder of 8-year-old nomad girl in Rasana village of Kathua in January this year.
After their resignation, the BJP is left with eight ministers, five in Cabinet and three Ministers of State. Sajjad Gani Lone, who holds the charge of the Social Welfare Department, is also a minister from the BJP quota. |
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