Usually the ministers are served show cause notices and even expelled for choosing to speak publicly against the government decisions by the chief minister as the head of the government but constraints of the coalition politics are such that Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti heading a coalition government can’t act against the ministers who do not belong to her own party. Since Chief Minister has the moral, institutional and administrative responsibility to ensure the accountability of the ministers of the other party before the political bosses of their own party but Chief Minister could not get even a simple show cause notice issued to her two BJP ministers Lal Singh and Chander Prakash Ganga by the BJP top brass over their highly objectionable participation in a rally called by Hindu Ekta Manch in support of those arrested by the Crime Branch of Jammu & Kashmir police on charges of involvement in the rape-n-murder of Kathua minor girl Asifa. Though BJP has expelled its state secretary Rajeev Sharma for the fault of heading the Hindu Ekta Manch spearheading the agitation against the investigation of the rape-n-murder of Kathua minor girl by the Crime Branch of Jammu & Kashmir police only to give PDP a face saving but the two ministers Lal Singh and Chander Prakash Ganga who publicly spoke in the Hindu Ekta Manch Rally against the government’s decision of handing over the investigation of the case to the Crime Branch of Jammu & Kashmir police have been spared. Political and administrative wisdom demands that Chief Minister forcefully seeks action against the BJP ministers for their highly objectionable anti-government activities by their party high command and leaves it to the saffron party to deal with its workers for their involvement in anti-government activities.
Seeking action against the BJP ministers for their involvement in their anti-government activities on no less sensitive an issue than the investigation of rape-n-murder of Kathua minor girl is the moral and institutional responsibility of the Chief Minister but unfortunately Chief Minister does not take the ally BJP head on over this issue which directly concerns the working of her government and the workability of justice delivery system in the state.
Interestingly the BJP has abandoned demand for handing over the Kathua girl murder case to CBI under mounting public criticism over its highly objectionable demand and just to neutralize the rising public criticism over the party’s support to those arrested on charges of rape-n-murder of Kathua minor girl the saffron party has expelled its state secretary Rajeev Sharma. Seeking action against the BJP ministers for their involvement in their anti-government activities on no less sensitive an issue than the investigation of rape-n-murder of Kathua minor girl is the moral and institutional responsibility of the Chief Minister but unfortunately Chief Minister does not take the ally BJP head on over this issue which directly concerns the working of her government and the workability of justice delivery system in the state.
