(By Ajaz wani) Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah, who is on a collision course with main alliance partner, the Congress, may resign on Saturday. The tiff is a result of differences between the two over setting up of new administrative units in the state, a top government source told HT. “A cabinet meeting is scheduled for Saturday over the administrative units and if a decision is not taken the same day, it could all unravel within hours,’’ the official said. “The CM insists that the cabinet sub- committee submit its recommendations on the units at the meeting.” However, hectic parleys were on in Delhi, between UPA minister Farooq Abdullah and senior Congress leaders to defuse the political crisis. Though Abdullah Senior insisted his son Omar Abdullah was free to take “his own decisions”, sources said he had invoked the intervention of 10 Janpath. Congress president Sonia Gandhi has directed the party to “extend support to the Omar-led government”, they claimed. “I have not spoken to anybody. The decision is entirely Omar Abdullah’s,” Farooq Abdullah told HT. Sources reveal that one way of averting the deadlock in the alliance is for the NC to agree to the Congress’ demand of setting up of 2,000 administrative units instead of 900 proposed earlier.
Posted on: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 16:33:30 +0000
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