Jammu: 04 Dec 2017
The State Government on Monday said that no fresh letter was sent to the speaker by Finance Ministry regarding the issue of discussion on Jammu and Kashmir Bank business in the House.
“It’s made clear that no communication has, of late, gone to the Assembly Secretariat from the office of the Finance Minister regarding taking up questions pertaining to J&K Bank business in the House,” an official spokesman said in reaction to a news report in a newspaper on Monday.
“The communication referred to in the news report dates back to March 2015 and it was at that point in time only a reiteration of the stated position of the successive state government’s regarding questions of the Legislators pertaining to the business of the J&K Bank,” the spokesman said, adding it was widely reported and discussed in the media at that point in time.
The spokesman said the newspaper has now dug-up an old and routine communication and tried to “play up and sensationalize the same in today’s edition as a lead story, to create an impression as if the Finance Minister has shot off a fresh letter to the Speaker, Legislative Assembly regarding the issue of discussion on JK Bank business in the House.”
