Ahead of announcement of elections in Jammu and Kashmir, Congress minister Sham Lal Sharma, who has been facing criticism over handling of recent floods, has tendered his resignation from the Omar Abdullah ministry.
Citing alleged sabotage of regularisation of daily wagers as a reason for tendering his resignation, Sharma, who is minister for Public Health Engineering and Flood Control, met Jammu and Kashmir’s Congress chief Saif-ud-din Soz on Friday night and handed over his resignation.
‘I have submitted my resignation to the Prof Saifuddin Soz as the chief minister is out of station,’ Sharma told PTI here on Saturday.
Alleging sabotage by National Conference leader and finance minister Adul Rahim Rather in taking steps for regularisation of daily wagers in the state, Sharma said ‘it was intentional dilly-dallying tactics by the minister for Finance Abdul Rahim Rather who is head of the Cabinet Sub-Committee on the regularisation of thousands of casual workers engaged from time to time since 1994.’