Srinagar BJP High Command in New Delhi has directed Deputy Chief Minister and other prominent leaders to keep vigil on the functioning of the ministers, directing them to furnish monthly report card.
Sources told Kashmir Observer that the BJP ministers have been directed that the list of achievements and the overall report card should reach to the Deputy Chief Ministers Office every month, which would be later submitted before the BJP High Command in New Delhi.
The Ministers work will be reviewed every month, said a senior leader at BJP office in New Delhi. We have been receiving continuous complaints about the sitting ministers over their approach towards other areas and complainants regarding their in capabilities, he said.
There were many speculations over the possible reshuffle in the BJP. A review meeting was also held by some of the senior leaders from New Delhi to assess the performance of the BJP ministers as J&K Government has revealed the truth about their incompetency.
Some of the ministers have failed miserably to deliver up to expectations of public and senior leaders as well on various matters and under circumstances where their political wisdom was required, sources said. . They are just occupying cabinet berths for nothing. People have shown severe resentment against these ministers and now the MOS lobby has decided to change the present set up, sources said.
They also alleged that the Deputy Chief Minister and the other senior cabinet ministers are least bothered about partys image and are only working towards safeguarding their positions in the ministry. They are serving their own interest because of which the party is losing its credibility in Jammu.
Sources said that Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti is disgruntled with some of the BJP Ministers for leaving the summer capital Srinagar and not reaching out to the general masses. Sources said that the Chief Minister has taken up the matter with the BJP High Command.
Pertinently the killings of more than 100 civilians since last year at the hands of government forces forced Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti-led government to call off its customary promotion of one-year achievements. The government neither came up with advertisements in the media about the accomplishments of the Mehbooba-led government during the past year nor did it hold any news conference to boast about it. Mehbooba had taken over as Jammu and Kashmir CM on April 4, 2016, around three months after her father Mufti Muhammad Sayeeds death. Opposition National Conference (NC) General Secretary, Ali Muhammad Sagar said the Mehbooba-led government had nothing to show off as its achievements as its report card was dismal.
The veteran NC leader said their report card also reads humiliation of Muslims at the hands of their coalition partners, the rightwing BJP. He said but for the opposition and the Hurriyat, Mehbooba-led government had almost set up Sainik Colonies and satellite townships for displaced Kashmiri Pandits after pressure from us and others.
Her report card reads killing of over 130 youth, injuries to over 16,000 persons, blinding of more than 100 children and youth, arrests of more than 15,000 people, 6-months continuous curfew, ban on Eid prayers for the first time in the 500 years of Kashmir history, ban on Friday congregational prayers at Jamia Masjid Srinagar for 18 consecutive weeks, a volatile south Kashmir, destructions of houses of civilians in gunfights in the name of collateral damage, Sagar said.
Their report card reads no progress on talks with Hurriyat or Pakistan as promised in the Agenda of Alliance, Sagar said about the PDP and BJPs Common Minimum Programme (CMP).
The PDP-BJP coalition government had come into being under the leadership of Mufti Muhammad Sayeed on March 1, 2015 and the two parties had termed Agenda of Alliance as guiding framework for governance. However, there has been no progress on any of the issues agreed by the two parties on the Agenda of Alliance including talks with internal stakeholders including Hurriyat Conference and fostering ties with Pakistan, revocation of the draconian Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), return of Dulhasti and Uri hydro-power projects to the State, vacation of land by occupied by Army and paramilitary forces and providing relief to the September 2014 flood-hit people has remained sluggish and the dredging of River Jhelum and flood-spill channels is yet to take off.