Srinagar, Oct 18: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday said the Cabinet Sub-Committee’s report on rationalization of reservation cannot be made public unless it is approved by the Lieutenant Governor.
Addressing a news conference at a local hotel, the Chief Minister, as per the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), said he had never stated that the report would be made public within days, but, “I had said that the cabinet sub-committee’s report will be prepared in the shape of a cabinet memo and sent to the Lieutenant Governor for approval.”
He said it is illegal to make the report public before it reaches the LG. “It will not happen overnight. No government works under pressure, and I am the last person who you can pressurize.
There is a procedure that is being followed. It is not only impropriety but bordering on illegality to release the information that has not even reached the Lieutenant Governor yet,” he said. He, however, said there is no attempt to hide anything. “Let the cabinet memo be finalized, let it be signed, let it reach the Lieutenant Governor. There is no attempt to hide and delay anything.
We have completed our process. It is a matter of days that the Lieutenant Governor signs the cabinet memo, and all information will be put before the people, but we are not going to bypass the procedure just because somebody thinks they can exert pressure,” he said. (KNO)
