Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, June 2: Asking National Conference ministers to change their attitude towards the people, party additional general secretary Dr Shiekh Mustafa Kamaal today said that party president is mulling to go for a major reshuffle in the party.
“You see party appointed Ali Mohammad Sagar as its new general secretary but this is not the only change. In coming days, the party will witness a major reshuffle while new faces may be given preference over some of the leaders who occupied cabinet berth and other important posts for years together,” Kamaal told Srinagar based news agency, admitting that vacuum got created between the party leadership and the grassroot level workers during the past some years.
Kamaal said that it is an open truth that some of the party ministers cared a fig for the people who elected them in 2008 assembly elections. “These people must change their attitude and understand that people are the ultimate authority and it is because of these people that they occupy the chair,” he said.
NC legislator said that gap between people and party leaders have widen while the party president Dr Farooq Abdullah is keen to bridge the gap between traditional party workers and leaders. “Farooq Abdullah was busy in New Delhi and he had not information what was happening on the ground in Kashmir. Farooq Sahab himself admitted that due to his busy schedule in New Delhi, he found it difficult to spare enough time for the party. The defeat in Parliament elections opened the eyes of party leadership and now everyone has agreed to change his attitude towards the people,” he added.