Jammu, Feb. 3 -- Deputy chief minister Surinder Choudhary on Monday dodged queries on coming clean on the much-awaited cabinet sub-committee report pertaining to regularisation of daily wagers in Jammu and Kashmir. When asked whether it would be tabled before the House during this budget session, Choudhary asked, "Is this the only issue confronting J&K?" In a veiled attack on the BJP, he claimed there were some daily wagers who have become leaders (pawns) and indulged in politics on the directions of a party. "Few daily wagers have become leaders. They hold protests on the directions of a party. As far as the stand of the National Conference (NC) is concerned, our leader Omar Abdullah has constituted a committee. We engaged them and we would regularise them. We are more sympathetic to them than you," he said. In the last budget session during March last year, chief minister Omar Abdullah had announced a high-powered panel headed by chief secretary Atal Dulloo to look into the issue of regularisation of daily wagers engaged in various government departments. The panel was given six months time to submit its recommendations to the government. According to an old estimate of the previous PDP-BJP coalition government that fell apart in June 2018, Jammu and Kashmir had 61,000 such workers. The number has now roughly risen to nearly a lakh. On leader of opposition Sunil Sharma and BJP MLA RS Pathania, who joined a protest by youth agitating over proposed National Law University here on Sunday, Choudhary said the LoP always tried to create ruckus. "The BJP had promised statehood to J&K after assembly elections. Where is it?" he asked. PDP MLA Waheed Parra, however, called the NC government a total failure."It's been over one and a half year since the CM announced the cabinet sub-committee on daily wagers. Why is the government dragging its feet?" he asked. He also slammed the government over amended reservation policy and demanded that the share of 65% should be kept for open merit candidates....