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JKPCC convention on Aug 31: Ambika, Soz arriving today

KT NEWS SERVICE. Dated: 8/30/2013 12:55:00 AM

JAMMU, Aug 29: All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary and incharge J&K affairs Ambika Soni accompanied by JKPCC president Prof Saif-ud-Din Soz is arriving tomorrow to participate in one day convention of PCC members of Jammu province scheduled to be held on August 31.
This will be her visit to Jammu after her appointment as the Incharge J&K affairs.
Member Parliament and JKPCC president Prof Saif-ud-Din Soz will preside over the function.
Besides Member Parliament Ambika Soni, the Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and Family Welfare will also grace the occasion.
Ambika and Soz would arrive here in Spice Jet flight at around 2.50 PM tomorrow. After her arrival, Soni will straightaway go to State Guest House, where she is scheduled to meet the party ministers, delegations of PCC leaders and workers.
According to a handout issued by the party, the convention being organised by Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) will be held at Banquet Hall of Hotel Ashoka at 10.30 AM on August 31.
The meeting will be attended by all Congress ministers, MPs, MLAs and MLCs of Jammu province.
In a related development, the state cabinet meeting scheduled for tomorrow at Srinagar has been postponed reportedly on the request of Congress ministers in the wake of their scheduled meeting with the AICC general secretary and Incharge J&K affairs after her arrival in the winter capital of state.
JKPCC spokesperson and MLC Ravinder Sharma, when contacted on this account, said, “No such request (to postpone cabinet meeting) has been made from the party side. However, since all the party ministers have been invited to meet the AICC general secretary and incharge J&K Affairs, this is possible that they (ministers), on their own, would have conveyed their inability to attend the cabinet meeting.”
When asked if Congress leaders’ demand for apology from Dr Mustafa Kamal for his remarks against and Congress and its leadership was the real reason behind the postponement of cabinet meeting, he responded in negative.
“No the party has not issued any such directive to the minister. Yes, the party leaders and the workers had expressed their resentment and had requested the Congress ministers to boycott cabinet meetings till Dr Kamal apologised. Given his unrelenting diatribe against the party, its leadership both at the state as well as at the central level, the anger is simmering in the party rank and file. That option is reserved with the party and it may exercise that option, yet so far it has not been exercised,” Sharma said.