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At ‘historic’ TV debate live from Lal Chowk, participants bash babu-raaj in J&K!
Rang Mein Bhang
8/8/2021 12:19:43 AM
Early Times Report

Srinagar, Aug 7: Even as the government managed to successfully allow a live TV debate for the national media from “historic” Lal Chowk in militancy infested Kashmir on August 6, the participants in the debate including prominent personalities like politicians took a dig at the administration saying that a section of bureaucrats were behaving like “dictators and breaking all records of corruption.”
While holding the event peacefully was seen a major success for the Jammu and Kashmir Police in particular, the governance on the whole remained a target of the debate.
While the debate was on the abrogation of the so called special status of Jammu and Kashmir, the participants and even those from the audience raised questions over bureaucracy and corruption.
It is pertinent to mention that even as Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha and Chief Secretary, Arun Kumar Mehta are known for their integrity and dynamism, public criticism is only growing against a section of bureaucracy.
Observers said it was first such debate held in the city center of Lal Chowk and was a supposed to be major achievement for the Modi government but that “bureaucracy remained the target.” The participants said while the Prime Minister Narendra Modi was known for his slogan of “Na Khawunga, Na Khane Dunga,” New Delhi had been silent over “massive corruption in the bureaucracy in the Jammu and Kashmir.”
Two senior BJP leaders were also present at the debate and couldn’t defend the bureaucracy.
One of the persons in the audience said “the bureaucrats don’t listen to the common people at all.”
The participants said the major hindrance in the realization of Modi’s vision of Naya Kashmir has been a section of “arrogant bureaucracy which looks allergic to complaints of corruption.”
Amid intermittent hooting from the crowds, the bureaucracy remained their target.
It is pertinent to mention that a section of bureaucracy has been facing public criticism for “failing to behave like responsible administration where the voice of people has to be given due space.”
“India is world’s largest democracy where the people are supposed to be have a say over bureaucracy much the way it happens in the rest of the country, but here some of the officials behave arrogantly,” admitted a senior official on the condition of anonymity.
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