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The Newshour Debate: Sack The Minister - Part 1 (8th August 2014)

A day after a government official resigned from service alleging abuse by a J&K minister, hundreds of engineering employees went on a pen-down strike demanding intervention of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah. The employees and engineering staff of the departments of Public Health Engineering (PHE) and Irrigation and Flood Control closed their offices here and went on a strike in support of PHE Chief Engineer Muzaffar Lankar. Lankar tendered his resignation Thursday (August 8) as a protest gainst the alleged abuse by the Minister for Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution (CAPD) Choudhary Mohammad Ramzan during a meeting which was also attended by PHE minister Sham Lal Sharma.The employees gave a three-day ultimatum seeking an apology from the minister. They threatened to disconnect drinking water and irrigation supply in the valley as a protest if the demand was not met. Nath demanded that the government should register an FIR and conduct an inquiry into the incident. "We condemn this attitude of the minister. The government must register an FIR and conduct an inquiry. The minister should resign and the government should not accept the resignation of the official," he said. Nath said the chief minister is aware of Lankar's credentials and should intervene in the matter. The employees alleged the ministers had been indulging in such misbehavior with the officials time and again. Meanwhile, Kashmir PHE Joint Employees Association also took out a protest rally against the minister at Press Colony here. The association demanded the minister's resignation threatening of non-cooperation with the government. In a debate moderated by TIMES NOW's Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami, panelists -- Dr. Mehboob Beg, Senior Leader, NC; Aman Sinha, Lawyer & Leader, BJP; Salman Soz, Spokesperson, Congress; Prem Shukla, Executive Editor, Dopahar ka Saamna; Ashok Pandit, Filmmaker and Social Activist; R K Misra, President, Navbharat Democratic Party; Shailesh Gandhi, Former CIC & RTI Activist -- discuss whether with the current ticket to lawlessness, Omar Abdullah should sack this minister.