“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.”
