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| Omar begins to act as CM | | Khursheed, Basharat, Mehboob, Varghese, Lankar, Farooq removed from key positions; IG Security, SSP Security attached for I-Day security breach Drabu asked to quit as Chairman J&K Bank; Kapur, Khoda on their wayout BB Vyas is Pr Secy to CM R | | Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, Aug 26: Raising stark indications of a Cabinet reshuffle and a massive overhaul in Police and civil administration in near future, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today took bold initiatives to refurbish the image of his non-performing coalition government. While dismissing Ghulam Mohammad Saroori as a Minister of his Cabinet, Chief Minister today directed the all-powerful Chairman of Jammu &n Kashmir Bank Ltd to submit his resignation "within 24 hours". With the search already underway for new Chief Secretary and Director General of Police, Cabinet today ordered a top level reshuffle in both Police and bureaucracy. The most powerful bureaucrats and Police officials removed unceremoniously from key positions in the government included Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Khursheed Ahmed Ganai, Commissioner-Secretary General Administration Department Basharat Ahmed Dhar, Commissioner-Secretary PWD Mehboob Iqbal, Financial Commissioner Home Sameul Varghese, IGP Kashmir Farooq Ahmed and Divisional Commissioner of Kashmir, Naseema Lankar. IG and SSP of Security Wing have been attached over the infamous security breach of Independence Day at Bakhshi Memorial Sports Stadium.
Highly placed authoritative sources revealed to Early Times that a host of developments---Congress party's Cabinet Minister Ghulam Mohammad Saroori's refusal to resign and some bureaucrats' alleged contribution to the PDP press conference on Wednesday included---led Omar Abdullah to take some of the boldest decisions of his 20-month-long coalition government. Acting over a verbal communication from the Congress High Command, sources said, Chief Minister wrote a letter to Governor N N Vohra, requesting him to dismiss Saroori as a Minister of his Cabinet. Late this evening, Governor dismissed Saroori as a Cabinet Minister on Chief Minister's recommendation.
Following the involvement of Saroori' daughter in the lately exposed impersonation scandal at ASCOMS, Jammu, Congress High Command had asked the Minister of R&B to submit his resignation. He, however, declined to having received any such direction from the party high command and left for Saudi Arabia, alongwith his wife and the Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad's brother, Ghulam Mustafa Azad, on Wednesday. His recalcitrance finally led to his dismissal today. Chief Minister retained Saroori's portfolio with himself. Sources said that in a possible Cabinet reshuffle "within 15 days", Chief Minister would assign R&B portfolio to a new Minister from Congress party.
In another significant development, Chief Minister sent Commissioner-Secretary Finance, Sudhanshu Pandey, to Corporate Headquarters of Jammu & Kashmir Bank Ltd and asked him to immediately get Chairman Haseeb Drabu's resignation. Pandey, sources said, drove all the way to his assigned destination and communicated the state government's direction to Drabu. He made it clear to Drabu that in case he failed to submit his resignation within 24 hours, Government would be constrained to call an extraordinary meeting of the Board of Directors to seek his dismissal. Sources said that Chief Minister desired Drabu's resignation after having received from Reserve Bank of India a dossier of gross irregularities committed in J&K Bank in the last five years. Sources said that acquisition of real estate without genuine need, against huge kickbacks in some metros recently, was also a major factor behind the government's decision. |
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