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DAILY EXCELSIOR, JAMMU MONDAY, MARCH 2, 2015 (PAGE 7) From page 1 Rs 583 cr released to deptts Mufti, 24 Ministers take oath; PDP walks away with lion’s share under PM's package Haq Khan, Syed Basharat Ahmed in 2014 and was Deputy Speaker and representation to the areas has that to maintain party’s hold in BJP and develop Jammu and as MLC having lost the election to the Planning and Development Department etc. Bukhari, Choudhary Zulfikar Ali, in the previous Assembly, is surprised many political observers. Chenab Valley, Udhampur-Reasi Kashmir during their tenure as Rigzin Jora of Congress in Leh. He Department in the month of "The funds are being provided Dr Haseeb Drabu, Ghulam Nabi being considered for the post of Of five Cabinet Ministers of and border belt of Rajouri and party presidents and as Ministers had won Leh seat in 1996 as November last year had accord- under PM's package as such are Lone Hanjoora, Syed Altaf the Chairman after his nomina- the BJP, two belonged to Kathua Poonch, the BJP should have given in Atal Bihari Vajpayee Congress MLA. Pawan Gupta had ed sanction to the release of Rs non-lapsable", sources said, Bukhari, Imran Raza Ansari and tion to the Council. The post of district alone (Dr Nirmal Singh at least one Cabinet Ministry to Government. won Udhampur seat as an 200 crore to Public Works, adding "the R&B, PHE, I&FC Naeem Akhter (all PDP), Dr the Deputy Chairman in the and Lal Singh) while each region. Instead it gave two Meanwhile, out of 25 Independent candidate defying Public Health Engineering, and PDD have been directed to Nirmal Singh, Chander Prakash Council can go to the BJP. The Sukhnandan Kumar Choudhary Cabinet Ministries each to Jammu Ministers including the Chief Modi wave after being denied the Irrigation and Flood Control take up only such schemes for per- Ganga, Choudhary Lal Singh, Bali PDP-BJP coalition, however, and Bali Bhagat belonged to two and Kathua districts while back- Minister, 21 have joined the BJP mandate. He is lone and Power Development manent restoration as are costing Bhagat and Sukhnandan Kumar may offer post of the Deputy neighbouring constituencies of ward areas and rural districts were Council of Ministry for the first Independent inducted as Minister Departments to ensure kick- Rs 10 lakh and above". Choudhary (all BJP) and Sajjad Speaker to the National Jammu district (Marh and given the MoS only. time with several of them even from the BJP quota. start of the works. The PWD will take up the Lone (People’s Conference), who In entire Ladakh region, the getting the Cabinet Ministry. Abdul Gani Kohli is lone At that time, the departments restoration works on the construc- was taken as the Minister from the CMs & Governor’s Rule in J&K BJP-PDP combine gave just one While Mufti Sayeed comes with Muslim BJP MLA among 25, who were conveyed that more funds tion of RCC counterfort wall and BJP quota. No Name Term Party Ministry and that too the MoS rich experience of serving at had won Kalakote seat in Rajouri (tenure length) would be released only after sub- allied works on left approach to The Ministers of State includ- (Chering Dorjey), who was recent- Union Government and State district while Sunil Sharma, who ed Chering Dorjey, Sunil Sharma, 1 Ghulam Mohammed 30 March 1965 - 12 December 1971 Indian National ly elected as the MLA. Though Chief Minister earlier also, two had kept the BJP flag aloft in mission of schematic/project wise 4th Tawi Bridge at Belicharana Sadiq (6 years, 257 days) Congress Abdul Gani Kohli, Priya Sethi (all Independent MLA from Zanskar PDP cabinet Ministers—Abdul Chenab Valley even during peak of DPRs along with photographs of (Rs 3.89 crore) and 4th Tawi 2 Syed Mir Qasim 12 December 1971 -25 February 1975 damaged infrastructure proposed Bridge (Rs 8 crore) only after con- BJP) and Pawan Gupta (3 years, 75 days in Kargil district of Ladakh region, Rehman Veeri and Javed militancy, also won Kishtwar seat to be rebuilt as funds are being sulting Commissioner Secretary (Independent MLA from 3 Sheikh Abdullah 25 February 1975 - 26 March 1977 National Bakir Hussain Rizvi had sided Mustafa Mir were Ministers of for the first time defeating NC’s provided through the Special Plan PHE/ I&FC Department. Udhampur, who also took oath (2 years, 29 days) Conference with the PDP, he was not inducted State for Home and Power two times MLA and former Assistance (SPA) route, sources "There shall be no overlap- from the BJP quota), Abdul Majid Vacant 26 March - 9 July 1977 in the Council of Ministry. respectively in 2002 PDP- Minister Sajjad Kitchloo in his tra- said while disclosing that during ping of funding from any other Paddar, Mohammad Ashraf Mir (Governor's rule) (0 years, 105 days) N/A The observers also expressed Congress coalition Government. ditional bastion of Kishtwar. the past three months an amount source such as SDRF/State and Asiya Naqash (all PDP). (3) Sheikh Abdullah 9 July 1977 - 8 September 1982 National surprise over PDP getting away Veeri has been elected to the Priya Sethi is lone woman There were two women (5 years, 61 days) Conference with lion’s share of 11 Cabinet Assembly for fourth consecutive Minister from BJP. Her husband of Rs 36 crore was also released in Plan/District/CCS and Flagship 4 Farooq Abdullah 8 September 1982 - 2 July 1984 favour of other departments like Programme", the Planning and Ministers—one each from BJP Ministers as against just five of term from Bijbehara, Mir has Yudhvir Sethi was strong con- (Priya Sethi) and PDP (Asiya (1 year, 298 days) BJP and a total of 14 Ministries made hat-trick from Chadoora. tender for MLA seat in Jammu SKIMS, Estate, Tourism and Development Department has 5 Ghulam Mohammad 2 July 1984 - 6 March 1986 Awami National Home for taking up of very neces- conveyed to the departments. Naqash). Out of total 25 Ministers, Shah (1 year, 247 days) Conference as compared to 11 of BJP Lal Singh is the only BJP East but was denied the mandate. sary works. The departments have been 23 are members of the Assembly Vacant 6 March - 7 November 1986 (including Sajjad Lone and Minister, who had earlier served in Mrs Sethi had earlier served as Now, the Planning and cautioned against un-necessary while only two (Naeem Akhter- (Governor's rule) (0 years, 246 days) N/A Pawan Gupta) notwithstanding the Council of Ministry with Corporator. Development Department has parking of funds and it has been PDP and Chering Dorjey—BJP) (4) Farooq Abdullah 7 November 1986 - 19 January 1990 National that both PDP and BJP have Health and Medical Education PDP’s Abdul Haq Khan (MLA conveyed its concurrence to the made clear that funds will not were members of Legislative (3 years, 73 days) Conference reached the number of 28 MLAs portfolio under Mufti Sayeed in Lolab), Basharat Bukhari (MLA further release of an amount of Rs be available for re-appropria- Council. Priya Sethi, who was not Vacant 19 January 1990 - 9 October 1996 each as Sajjad Lone (whose 2002 as Congress MLA but only Sangrama) and Choudhary 583 crore under Prime Minister's tion/diversion at any level. a member of the any House, was (Governor's rule) (6 years, 264 days) N/A party has two MLAs) and for two years as he had quit the Zulfikar (MLA Darhal), who nominated to the Assembly tonight (4) Farooq Abdullah 9 October 1996 - 18 October 2002 National Pawan Gupta (Independent) Government to contest Lok Sabha gained Cabinet berth, have won package for permanent restoration Asking the departments to fur- (6 years, 9 days) Conference of damaged infrastructure. nish the Utilization Certificates of by the Governor on recommenda- were made the Ministers from elections, which he won for two the election for second consecutive tions of the Government. The Vacant 18 October - 2 November 2002 the BJP quota. terms in 2004 and 2009 before term. They had played effective With this, as against Rs 1000 the released funds separately, the (Governor's rule) (0 years, 15 days) N/A crore project cost approved Planning and Development Governor has powers to nominate 6 Mufti Mohammad 2 November 2002 -2 November 2005 People's There was strong resentment being denied mandate by the role of opposition along with oth- under the package, an amount Department has informed that un- two women to the Assembly for a Sayeed (3 years, 0 days) Democratic Party among the people of Jammu Congress in 2014 for Udhampur- ers in the previous Government. of Rs 820 crore has been made spent funds would have to be got term of 6 years on recommenda- 7 Ghulam Nabi Azad 2 November 2005 - 11 July 2008 Indian National region, who had given 25 out of a Doda seat after which he switched However, Dr Haseeb Drabu available to the departments. An revalidated after March 31, 2015. tions of the Chief Minister. (2 years, 252 days) Congress total of 37 seats to the BJP on what over to BJP. (MLA Rajpora), widely believed to amount of Rs 259 crore has been In response to a question, Of 25 Ministers including the Vacant 11 July 2008 - 5 January 2009 they called ``surrender by the BJP Dr Nirmal Singh, who was be the next Finance Minister, released to R&B Department, sources said that rest of Rs 180 Chief Minister, 14 belonged to (Governor's rule) (0 years, 178 days) N/A before the PDP’’ by giving away designated as the Deputy Chief Ghulam Nabi Lone Hanjoora Kashmir region (13 from PDP and 8 Omar Abdullah 5 January 2009 - 8 January 2015 National 11 Cabinet berths to the PDP and Minister, has won first ever elec- (MLACharar-i-Sharief), Syed Altaf Rs 98 crore to PHE crore amount would be released (6 years, 3 days) Conference Department, Rs 180 crore to only after the Planning and one Sajjad Lone), 10 to Jammu (9 taking only 5 for it and one for its tion of his political career from Bukhari (MLA Amirakadal) and from BJP and one PDP) and one Vacant 8 January 2015 - 1 March 2015 ally Sajjad Lone.