Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Agriculture Minister Ghulam Hassan Mir, who is alleged to have received funds from Army's secret unit to topple the state government in 2010, yesterday attended a cabinet meeting here.
Mir attended the cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah this evening, official sources said.
A report in a national English daily claimed that Mir had been paid Rs 1.19 crore by Technical Services Division - a secret intelligence unit of the army - in 2010 to destabilise the Omar Abdullah led government, leading to demands from various quarters, including ruling National Conference, for his resignation.
The then Army chief, Gen V K Singh, in an interview to private TV news channel claimed that many ministers in Jammu and Kashmir were being paid since Independence for winning the hearts of the people in the state.
However, Mir refuted the allegations and said he wanted a fair and time-bound probe into the controversy to clear his name.
"If a fair probe is held, the truth will come out and I would stand vindicated.
"Therefore, I offer myself to an open and time bound probe to look into these allegations," Mir said in a statement on September 25. Mir alleged that concerted efforts are being made to dent his political integrity and popularity.
"The allegations levelled recently are politically motivated and are absolutely false.
"I had been keeping quiet over the controversies raked in the past few days but now I am constrained to speak out as these controversies have not only sought to besmirch my personal reputation but also humiliated people with whose support I am where I am," Mir had said.
