Mehbooba likely to make brother Tassaduq her adviser
SRINAGAR : Jammu and Kashmir chief minister is likely to appoint her brother and party' s candidate from An ant n ag, Tass aduq Mufti, as an adviser.
While there is no official confirmation, the buzz was created by National Conference (NC) working president Omar Abdull a hint he morning, after a tweet on social media.
The news was confirmed to Hindustan Times by a senior official who did not want to be quoted. “It is in the pipeline,” the official said.
Abdullah hinted at the possibility of a “new adviser” for the CM, but stopped short of giving any name .“The buzz in the sec re- tar ia tis that@ M eh boob a Mufti is appointing a new advisor in the next 24-36 hours (sic),” Abdullah had tweeted.
This elevation will give Tassaduqa position equivalent to a cabinet minister in the current administration. Academician professor Amitabh Mattoo held the position before Tassaduq.
Later in the day, however, NC issued a statement calling the decision “laughable”. “It proved beyond any doubt the existence of two parallel power centres in the Peoples Democratic Party( P DP) and consequently the state government,” the statement read.
In the statement, NC state spokesperson Jun aid Matt us aid that T ass a du q' s appointment was “a back-door anointment of a runaway candidate from the Anantnag by-poll, who is being foisted on the people of state by the Mufti family ”. NC’s statement claimed that Mufti has been running a “parallel office and his appointment has made it official”.
“Tassaduq’s appointment is more of an anointment from the back-door when his party failed to contest an election in Anantnag ,” the statement read.