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NEWS ANALYSIS
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, July 29: The Jammu and Kashmir Government stands exposed. The report that Revenue and Relief Minister Raman Bhalla has urged the Government of India to include all the 6,000 posts to be created in the Kashmir Valley under the Prime Minister employment package clearly suggests that the State Government has not only gone back on its promise to employ 3,000 out of 6,000 Kashmiri Hindu youth in the Valley in the various State Government offices but also indicates the bias of the ruling elite towards the internally displaced Kashmiri Hindus. The arguments advanced by the Revenue Minister, according to a report, are two – non-availability of finances and limitations imposed by the “provisions of the State Constitution.”
These are spurious arguments and, obviously, advanced at the behest of his Kashmiri masters. Reflection on the second part first. His department, reportedly says, that since the “State Constitution imposes limitations”, it cannot employ the Kashmiri Hindu youth under the state sector. This argument is both ridiculous and unconstitutional. The displaced Kashmiri Hindus are part and parcel of the state. They are the permanent residents of the state as well as the original inhabitants of the Kashmir Valley. How could the State Constitution debar the displaced Kashmiri Hindus from being considered eligible for employment under the state sector? No one can debar them. To debar them would be to commit a fraud on the State Constitution and make it loud that the non-Muslims have no place whatsoever in Kashmir or that Kashmir Valley is the sole preserve of the followers of a particular religion. The argument reportedly advanced by the Revenue Department is patently communally motivated.
The second argument of the Revenue Department is, according to the report, that the financial health of the State Government doesn’t permit it to employ under the state sector 3,000 internally displaced Kashmiri Hindus. This argument again is ridiculous, provocative and communally motivated. How could the State Government advance this ridiculous argument? It cannot cite the bad financial health as the reason behind the inability of the State Government to absorb a paltry 3,000 internally displaced Kashmiri Hindus under the state sector.
The State Government cannot scuttle the Prime Minister’s employment package all the more because it has been very seriously toying with the idea of employing 20,000 to 25,000 “ex-militants” under the state sector on the plea that they have abandoned the path of violence; that they have no money to meet their financial needs and that they are highly vulnerable to the militants’ dictates. In other words, the State Government has everything in its kitty to offer to those who have brought to the state nothing but death and destruction and did all that they could at the behest of their masters across the border to destroy India and its Jammu and Kashmir.
The State Government can’t scuttle the Prime Minister’s employment package all the more because it is working overtime to ensure the return to Kashmir of the Pakistan-based militants of Kashmir origin whose number runs into thousands with a view to rehabilitating them with honour and dignity. That means the State Government has the ability and capability to absorb the highly indoctrinated and Pakistani-trained militants of Kashmir origin in the state sector, but it has contempt for those who are Indians from the core of their heart and who have been suffering only because they do not belong to the religious denomination to which the Kashmir’s ruling class belongs. To be more precise, the Kashmir’s ruling class and its collaborators in Jammu, including those controlling the Revenue and Relief Department, want New Delhi to feed the thousands and thousands of secessionists and, at the same time, want New Delhi to take care of those who call themselves Indians, as they consider them a liability.
One can understand without any difficulty the intentions of the Kashmir’s ruling class that considers the Kashmir-based society that belongs to one particular religious denomination as the sole factor. But one fails to understand why the Jammu-based ministers like Raman Bhalla are following in the footsteps of their Kashmiri masters. They must change their style of working. They must identify themselves with those who represent the Indian constituency in the secessionist and militant-infested Jammu and Kashmir. They must establish their secular and democratic credentials.
Will Revenue Minister Raman Bhalla withdraw the suggestion he has reportedly given to the Central Government, put his foot down and ensure the employment of the displaced Kashmiri Hindus against the posts to be created under the Prime Minister’s employment package? Besides, he would do well to de-link the employment package from the return of the Kashmiri Hindus to the Valley taking into consideration the prevailing environment in Kashmir. They are not canon-fodder.
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