Neeraj Rohmetra
Jammu, May 11: The National Conference – Congress Coordination Committee (CC) will be meeting in the summer capital next week under the chairmanship of its chairman, Saif-ud-Din Soz.
Reliable sources told EXCELSIOR that the meeting assumes great significance in view of the fact that Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah had on May 9 written to JKPCC (I) President and CC Chairman to immediately convene a meeting of the Committee to discuss certain important issues.
“Thereafter, the two coalition partners after consultations decided to have meeting of the Committee anytime next week,” sources said.
Elaborating on the items on agenda of the Committee, sources said, “the members would discuss all the important issues like introduction of 73rd amendment in the State Constitution, early holding of Urban Local Bodies elections and nomination of heads of Corporations”.
Sources stated, “communication from the Chief Minister, who is also Working President of National Conference (NC) is also important in view of the fact that the Urban Development and Local Bodies Ministry has formally written to the State Government for holding the much awaited and pending elections. The Urban Development and Local Bodies Ministry and the Election Department have made almost all preparations for holding the elections anytime now”.
“The Election Department has also completed its prime task of updating the electoral rolls for Municipal Corporations and Councils across the State”, sources said.
Regarding the incorporation of 73rd amendment in the State Constitution, sources said, “the issue of making suitable amendments in the State Panchayati Raj Act is also likely to crop up in the meeting”.
“The High Powered Committee, which had been constituted to give recommendations for incorporating suitable provisions of 73rd amendment of Constitutional of India into the Panchayati Raj Act of the State Constitution, had submitted its final report to the State Government on March 7. However nothing much had happened regarding the implementation of the recommendations mentioned in the Report so far”, sources said.
“Resentment is brewing up among the Congress party over the delay in implementation of this report. The issue had been also discussed at different levels within the Congress party and their participants in the meeting are also likely to express their displeasure in the forthcoming meeting of the CC”, sources asserted.
Sources said the Congress remained determined to implementation of major provisions of 73rd amendment in the constitution of J&K and wouldn’t compromise on it.
Another important agenda of the CC’s first meeting in the summer capital sources said would be the decisions of nomination of Chairmen of Government run Corporation, who would have status of Minister of State.
“In view of forthcoming Assembly elections in December 2014, both the Coalition partners have mutually agree to nominate their members as head of Corporations. The Chairmen would be given status of Minister of State and both parties believed this move would help them to consolidate their vote bank as they would be in a position to solve problems of people”, sources emphasized.
Sources also stated that the issue of nominating Chairmen had also been discussed in the previous meeting of CC, which was held in winter capital.
“The member of the Committee had threadbare discussed the details of Corporation, which are in profit and those which are in red. It had also been mutually been decided that both National Conference and Congress would have four of their members each appointed as Chairmen”, sources said.
It is pertinent to mention here that on April 6, this year the Congress – National Conference (NC) Coordination Committee in its meeting in winter capital had decided to gear up the administrative machinery for early holding of Block Development Council (BDC) and Urban Body elections.
Over the issue of introducing 73rd amendments in the State Panchayati Raj Act, it had been mutually decided that the Report of the High Level Committee formulated by the State Government to suggest suitable amendments would further be discussed between two senior members of both political parties so as to arrive at a consensus at the earliest possible.
Prof Saif-ud-Din Soz is the Chairman of the Coordination Committee (CC) and it’s other members are Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather, Rural Development Minister Ali Mohammad Sagar and Minister for CA&PD and Transport Choudhary Ramzan from National Conference and Deputy Chief Minister Tara Chand and former Deputy Chief Minister Mangat Ram Sharma from Congress.
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