Cong says Omar alone didn’t do this

SRINAGAR: Hours after Chief Minister Omar Abdullah announced that retirement age of government employees will be raised from 58 to 60 years, State Congress president Professor Saif-u-Din Soz said Omar Abdullah is putting Congress on back foot but by doing so he will miserably fail. “I want to ask Omar Abdullah why he opposed this decision two years ago when I was advocating and appealing the government to increase the retirement age of government employees,” Soz told Srinagar based news gathering agency CNS adding that his plea at that time was that average age as well as standard of living has increased.

He said Omar Abdullah can’t take credit of everything. “People know the reality and they know what is happening on the ground,” Soz said.

Soz said that he always supported the cause of the government employees. “It was Omar Abdullah who was opposing it. It is more than two years ago that I made a statement that retirement age of government employees should be increased while upper age limit for recruitment be also raised. My plea was that average age has increased. Some of the Minister had apprehensions that youth will get annoyed if retirement age will be enhanced, however, I never changed my stand and continuously advocated the cause of the employees,” Soz has said.

Soz further said that it was necessary for the government to ponder over the advice of State Agriculture Minister Ghulam Hasan Mir.    Pertinently, Agriculture Minister and the president of Democratic Party (Nationalist) Ghulam Hassan Mir had said the National Conference – Congress government shouldn’t take any decision on enhancement of retirement age of government employees at the fag-end of its tenure as according to him it has future implications.

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