Murtaza Khan resigns from business advisory committee

Jammu, Mar 15 (KNS): PDP Senior leader and MLC Murtaza Ali Khan today tendered his resignation from the membership of business advisory committee in the upper House in agitation of non inclusion of home department in the discussion in the legislative council.
In a statement MLC Murtaza Khan alleged that a meeting was held on 13th March 2012 to select various issues regarding discussions on grants to various departments in the upper house as there was no discussion since then.  In the meeting as many as seven departments including CA&PD, Education, Revenue, Agriculture, Home, R&B and tourism were selected to be discussed on different dates.

The report of the committee was presented in the house  on 14th March ,when certain members proposed  proposed that some more departments may be brought under discussion in the council.
The meeting was rescheduled for today. The majority of the member of business advisory committee comprising Khalid Najeeb Suharwardi, Shri Vijay Bakaya, Shri Jahangir Mir, Mr Ravinder Sharma, headed by the chairman of legislative council made a proposal that instead of the Home department  the Medical education department be discussed.Muratza Ali khan opposed the proposal and demanded that Home being the most important department be discussed.
However the members of the ruling coalition remained adamant to drop the Home department. On this Muratza Ah Khan tendered his resignation from the business advisory committee.
Alleging that it was a deliberate and well planned strategy not to bring the Home department under discussion Muratza Khan said that the Home department being an important department as very serious issues of Human rights, corruption, Mal-governance etc would have been discussed.
He further alleged  that in an attempt to prevent very serious issues coming under the Home department from being  exposed on the floor of the House and to save the Chief Minister from embarrassment , this unprecedented move was strategized in the garb of preview of the report  of the business advisory committee.