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October 22, 2002, Chandigarh, India  
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Will Cong,
PDP form govt? NC blamed
for J&K constitutional crisis Durbar
move: forces on high alert
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killed, 17 hurt in IED blasts Srinagar, October 21 Four persons, including a woman and two security personnel, were killed and 17 injured as militants triggered explosions and attacked security forces and a National Conference worker in separate incidents in Jammu and Kashmir since last night.
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Will Cong, PDP form govt? Jammu, October 21 Constitutional experts are of the view that the first option for Mr
G.C. Saxena is to allow the Governor’s rule to continue till a particular party or a group of parties make a valid bid for forming the government. The second option left with him is to invite the single largest party to form the government with a rider that it has to seek the vote of confidence on the floor of the Assembly. Right from day one the National Conference (NC) with 28 MLAs could have staked the claim for forming the government but it preferred to sit in the opposition. It did not bid for government formation because there were chances that the PDP-Congress, together having 36 MLAs, could form a coalition government with the support of independent candidates and the four MLAs from the Panthers Party. Even today the Congress has claimed the support of 38 to 40 MLAs and this was conveyed to the Governor, when the leader of the Congress Legislature Party, Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad, called on him at Raj Bhavan in Srinagar. If Mr Azad’s claim has any credibility, it means that the Congress had secured support of at least four to six MLAs of the PDP. However, the Governor is said to have told Mr Azad to submit a list of the MLAs supporting the Congress and later parade them in front of him. Mr Azad is said to have accepted the challenge and has told his party colleagues that he would submit the list within a day or two. Another option left with the parties is to engineer defections. As far as the NC is concerned, its MLAs cannot cross over to the other side in a small group. At least 10 NC MLAs have to defect at a time which will prevent them from inviting the provisions of the Anti-defection Law. This is not applicable to the PDP, which is yet to be recognised and registered by the Election Commission. In the situation if the Congress stakes claim for the government formation it cannot do so without the direct or indirect support of either the PDP or the NC. As far as the PDP is concerned the Congress plans to bank on defectors if the talks with the Mufti are not resumed. The same yardstick is applicable to the NC which despite being the single largest party cannot form the government with the support of independent candidates and that too when all of them are not prepared to risk their lives by joining hands with the NC. Inside reports say the Congress is keen to form the government on the assumption that once it is in power, legislators from other groups will support it out of lure for money or power. According to the reports, the Congress leadership will try to gain power and at the time of the vote of confidence on the floor of the House it can manipulate boycott of voting by a political group. But that can be possible if it is able to have some secret understanding with the NC. At the moment there is not even love-hate relationship between the Congress and the NC which one witnessed in 1975, when the Congress supported Sheikh Abdullah to form the government, or in 1987 when the two formed a coalition government in the state. During these two occasions it was a marriage of convenience and not conviction. Since the Congress-PDP dialogue is likely to be resumed, the success of the two-party coalition formation now solely lies with the AICC President, Ms Sonia Gandhi. |
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NC blamed for J&K
constitutional crisis Jammu, October 21 Prof Gupta told a media conference here today that National Conference leadership did not accept defeat with grace and plunged the state into a constitutional crisis making the Governor take over the powers of the government. To a question he said that the BJP-NDA’s led pact with the National Conference at Centre was the main reason for BJP’s poor performance in the recent Assembly election in Jammu and Kashmir. The BJP won only one seat while in 1996 it got eight seats. Prof Gupta said that the state unit of the BJP had cautioned the party High Command in Delhi against accepting the NC as partnership because “we knew that people in the state were opposed to it.” He said that though the poll verdict led to hung Assembly, it was duty of the Congress and the PDP to come up to the expectations of the people of the state and form government to give clean administration. The minister said that if there were further delay in government formation it would nullify the gains achieved by the BJP-led NDA Government in ensuring free and fair election in the state. To another question Prof Gupta said that the Centre had taken all-possible measures for the restoration of normalcy in Jammu and Kashmir but the ISI was hell-bent on destabilising peace. He disclosed that it was due to sound security planning that busting of 162 ISI modules in the country in the past over one year was achieved. He said that for the first time the Centre, under the leadership of Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee and Mr L.K. Advani, had earmarked Rs 1,000 crore for the modernisation of the police. |
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Durbar move: forces on high alert Srinagar, October 21 The “move offices,” including the civil secretariat, will close in the summer capital here on October 25 to reopen in the winter capital Jammu in the first week of November. An official spokesman said all ‘move offices’ had been directed to send their advance parties to Jammu tomorrow. Every party will consist of one gazetted officer and four non-gazetted employees for receiving the records at Jammu, he said. Official sources said due to threat perception additional security forces had been deployed on either side of the highway to foil any militant attempt to attack the employees convoy or destroy the official records. Besides the normal deployment of Road Opening Parties (ROP), security forces would be deployed on the hills from Qazigund to Udhampur. The government has also ordered the special TA shall be paid at the uniform rate of Rs 2,500 to every employee. However, it shall not be payable to the employees who do not move within the prescribed dates. As per order, 27 departments which include all departments of Civil Secretariat will move in full, while 30 departments shall move in camp, the spokesman said. He said it had also been ordered that offices of Managing Directors of various corporation and the public sector undertakings would remain located permanently at their registered offices in Jammu and Srinagar. It has been further ordered that the State Road Transport Corporation (SRTC) would provide sufficient number of buses in good condition for taking Jammu and Srinagar-based employees on the dates to be specified separately. the booking of buses shall be according to the destinations of the employees wherever feasible. The SRTC will also make available trucks for the shifting of records from Srinagar to Jammu. The trucks shall be requisitioned by the Departments from the SRTC and the Departments shall draw advance for meeting carriage and package charges. The SSP Security, Srinagar, will supervise packing and loading of records of the offices located outside the secretariat from Security point of view and issue clearance certificates to the Drivers who in turn will show it to SSP Security, civil secretariat to allow them to be included in the convoy. It should be ensured that boxes are properly locked and keys reach the advance parties at Jammu well in time. The SSP Security, Civil Secretariat will furnish a list of defaulter departments in this regard to the Commissioner and Secretary to Government, General Administration Department at Jammu. The police will escort the employees and the records convoy all along the route up to their respective destinations. They will also make it convenient that the move convoy receives preference in crossing the Jawahar Tunnel, The Director-General of Police will issue necessary guidelines to its field agencies accordingly. The office timings on the re-opening of the offices at Jammu of Civil Secretariat and Head of Departments located within the Civil Secretariat premises will be 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and moving heads of departments located outside the Civil Secretariat and observing six-day week will be 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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Police Commemoration Day observed Jammu, October 21 The Inspector-General of Police, Mr P.L. Gupta, the Divisional Commissioner, Mr Anil Goswami, the Deputy Commissioner, Mr Rohit Kansal, the DIG, Mr Dilbagh Singh, and other senior police officers laid wreaths on the memorial. Speaking on the occasion, Mr Gupta said during the past one year 177 police personnel had lost their lives while fighting militants and added that out of them 125 belonged to the state police. Srinagar:
Jammu and Kashmir Governor G.C. Saxena said on Monday that cross-border terrorism was still continuing though the menace was at its fag end with the police and other security forces doing a wonderful job. He was speaking at the annual Police Commemoration Day parade at the Zewan Police Complex on the outskirts of the city. The Governor gave ‘tamgay shahadat’ (martyrdom medal) to the next of kin of 35 police personnel who laid their lives during anti-terrorism operations. Former Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah was also present at the function along with National Conference president Omar Abdullah and state Chief Secretary I.S. Malhi. Director-General of Police
A.K. Suri said the state police bore the brunt of militancy-related violence in the state, losing 636 personnel and 266 Special Police Officers. |
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4 killed, 17 hurt in IED blasts Srinagar, October 21 Militants fired several shots at NC worker Abdul Rehman Badoo outside his shop in downtown Srinagar this afternoon critically injuring him, an official spokesperson said today. Panic gripped the area following the attack. Badoo was rushed to a hospital where his condition was stated to be serious. A Jaish-e-Mohammad militant and a security personnel were killed and four jawans injured in an encounter at Chak-e-Kralpora in the Bandipora area of Baramula district last night, he said. JAMMU:
Three Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) ultras were shot dead by security forces in a fierce encounter at Sanai village in the Surankot sector of Poonch district late last night, a top police officer of the district said. The slain ultras were identified as Abu Bilal, Abu Ikram and Abu Saram, Kamal Saini, SSP, Poonch, said and informed that all of them belonged to LeT. Three Kalashnikov rifles, five magazines, two radio sets, eight hand grenades and three pouches were seized from the possession of the slain ultras, the SSP added. In another incident, militants fired at an Army patrol party in the Gursie area of Poonch district killing an Army officer, the sources said. The officer has been identified as Major Vinod Kumar Rana, the sources said.
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Hizbul ‘commander’
joins JuM Srinagar, October 21 He said he had been associated with the Hizbul Mujahideen for the past 12 years and found that there was a difference between word and deed among leaders of the outfit.
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