JAMMU: The Union cabinet secretary Surendra Singh, and special Secretary, home, V.K.Jain, arrived here to review the law and order situation and explore ways of hastening the “democratic process in the state,” ‘They were accompanied by two top intelligence officers.
The Central team met senior state officials, They are understood to have told them to gear up for early elections, They also met senior Army officers and were briefed on the security situation.
The leaders urged the Center to announce apolitical and economic package for the state as a prelude to holding assembly elections.
Among those who met the Central team Were Congress general secretary Mangat Ram Sharma, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Chaman Lal Gupta, Harbans Singh of National Conference and
Yousuf Tanigami of Communist Party of India (Marxist).
The Central team, later flew by a Special aircraft to Leh where it will meet leadership of the Ladakh Buddhist Association and Ladakh Muslim Association and discuss the formation of the Autonomous Hill Council. The team will then fly to Srinagar to hold talks with the administration and governor Gen K. Y. Krishna Rao.
Article extracted from this publication >> October 14, 1994
