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Farooq angry over talk of chief minister's rotation
Tuesday December 27, 2011 09:22:19 PM,
IANS
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Jammu: Union New and
Renewable Energy Minister Farooq Abdullah has conveyed his anger
over the repeated talk of rotating the Jammu and Kashmir chief
ministership between the ruling allies, his national Conference
and the Congress, party sources said Tuesday.
Farooq's son Omar Abdullah has been the chief minister since
January 2009, and a section of the Congress in the state, owing
loyalty to state Congress chief Saifuddin Soz, has been pitching
for change of guard.
A local media report Sunday suggested that nine Congress
legislators, including five ministers, had resigned to mount
pressure on the party high command to replace Omar with Soz.
The National Conference sources said that Farooq, who heads the NC,
was so miffed with the report that he took up the matter with some
senior Congress leaders in New Delhi and asked them that his party
should be told in clear terms whether the NC-Congress alliance in
Jammu and Kashmir is to continue or break mid-way.
These sources in the National Conference said that Farooq
Abdullah's response made Soz deny the report and even led to
Deputy Chief Minister Tara Chand issue a statement that the
coalition was running smoothly and that no Congress legislator or
minister had resigned.
However, sources in the Congress said the matter is far from over
as some leaders would again bring up this issue.
They said they feared that if the Congress continued to play the
role of "B team" in the government for next three years, it could
result in electoral debacle for the party in the 2014 assembly
polls.
The term of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly is of six years.
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