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| NC-Cong playing double game on communal lines! | | Kashmir to get lion's share in PSC | | CC recommends 4 Muslims, one Brahman, one ST member
Fazal Khan
SRINAGAR, Sept 1: Coordination Committee (CC) of the National Conference and Congress which met here in summer capital last week has decided to give lion's share to Kashmir region while filling up the six vacant posts of the prestigious Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission, the premiere recruitment agency of the state.
Sources told Early Times the CC has decided to play a "double game" on the "communal lines" to derive maximum political mileage out of the move. "Both the parties have decided to play a communal card to woo the voters from both Muslim and Hindu communities as the parties will be fighting the elections alone," sources said.
"Soon after the announcement about the names of the PSC members would be made. Congress will oppose the decision and would term it as anti-Jammu and anti-Hindu. Congress would raise hue and cry over the issue and will claim that party's views have been ignored, and NC has appointed Muslim members without its knowledge. NC is eyeing Muslim votes in the Valley while Congress wants to woo the Hindu voters by opposing the NC's decision. It's a fixed match aimed at hoodwinking the people on communal lines," the sources added.
They said out of six PSC members four would be Muslims from Kashmir while two others would include one Brahman and one from Schedule Caste community. "The decision to have four members from Kashmir was taken only and only to appease voters in Kashmir and give NC an edge in the Valley," sources said, adding that "During the meeting it was decided that to have Hindu members in PSC at this point of time from Jammu region would hardly serve any purpose as the Bahartiya Janta Party has already made inroads there and some big issue is needed to lure the voters towards Congress," said a source.
He said three names of the Muslim candidates from the Valley were discussed threadbare. The probable candidates include, Sheikh Mushtaq, who has a strong Jamaat-e-Islami background, Wali Mohammad Bhat, who had hit the headlines after writing a book on Chenab Valley. Experts had claimed that book was anti-Hindu. The other name which CCC discussed was that of Khurshid Ganai, who is believed to be an upright and honest officer.
A group of professionals while talking to Early Times said, "It's amazing that decision to fill up the vacant posts of the PSC has been taken on the political lines."
They said that to appoint PSC members is purely an administrative decision on. "The PSC deals with the appointment of professionals like doctors, policemen, engineers and others. Usually the PSC used to comprise of retired officers from professional background and each fraternity used to get representation in the PSC ," they added. They said if the government moves the proposal on the lines which have been agreed upon by the leaders of National Conference and Congress it can take a heavy toll on the recruitment process. "First of all it would lead to the resentment in Jammu region. Secondly non-professionals will be asked to appoint professionals."
Pertinently, till the end of the year 1954 there was no formal recruiting agency in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. A Public Service Recruitment Board was set up on December 31, 1954. Subsequently with the coming into force of the "Constitution of Jammu and Kashmir State" on 26th of January 1957, "Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission" was established, under section 128 of the
Constitution of J&K, on September 2, 1957, with Major General Yadav Nath Singh PVC, as it is first Chairman. |
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