NC-Cong deadlock apparently over, Tara to submit report before Feb 1

KL Report

SRINAGAR

The deadlock between National Conference and the Congress over the establishment of administrative units in Jammu and Kashmir has apparently ended as the Deputy Chief Minister Tara Chan on Wednesday announced that he will submit its report earlier than the due date.

“We will support the government till the last day, and will submit our report before the February 1 deadline,” Tara Chand, who heads cabinet the sub-committee was quoted by a TV news Channel today.

Sources said that due to the direct intervention of Congress High Command to “settle the issue amicably” state Congress has directed Tara Chand to submit the report.

The proposal to create new administrative units in Jammu and Kashmir has become the new bone of contention between Omar Abdullah’s National Conference and the Congress, casting a shadow on the fate of the alliance in the state.

With the ties between the two alliance partners hovering on the brink, the cabinet sub-panel headed by deputy chief minister Tara Chand, a senior Congress leader from the Jammu region, according to sources has sought to trump the NC by recommending the formation of 2000-2500 new administrative units, against the 700 favoured by Abdullah’s party.

The sub-committee was formed by the NC-Congress government in the state to examine the recommendations of the Mushtaq Ganai panel, which had come up with the idea of reorganizing the state’s administrative structure to bring administration at people’s doorsteps.

Relations between the two partners have never been easy, and have survived only because of the personal equations between Abdullah and Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi.

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