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| 'All praise be to' three bureaucrat-turned-party card holders of NC- Congress for dismal power scenario? | | | et plus report
JAMMU, Mar 11: Three Chief Secretaries, who are now card holders of two political parties, received special words of appreciation from Provincial President of National Conference (NC) and MLC Devinder Singh Rana in the legislative council today.
Rana repeatedly pointed towards them in the house, calling them three experts in financial issues. One may not doubt expertise of these three bureaucrat-turned-politicians over subjects which they have dealt with during their days in the office but if nothing has changed on the power front during last 22 years, the time span during which these officers were holding the highest administrative chair, showering excessive praises does raise eye-brows.
One needs not to be reminded that these three experts are Sheikh Ghulam Rasool, Vijay Bakaya and B.R.Kundal. Bakaya and Sheikh Ghulam Rasool are card-holders of National Conference (NC) while Kundal holds the membership of Congress. All three were known even during their respective tenures closest buddies of the high profile political figures of Jammu and Kashmir from Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah to Ghulam Nabi Azad.
If sources are to be believed, the political affiliation of Bakaya and Sheikh has always remained talk of the town. A select group of KAS officers fondly credits one of these two NC card holders for technical quota injunction into their service. Though he is believed to have done it for one of his own children but the fact remains that the brute misuse of quota pains a lot to those officers who qualified competitive examinations to enter the highly prized service.
One would like to ask Rana about Sheikh Ghulam Rasool's contribution, who headed the state bureaucracy from September 21, 1992 to April 15, 1994, in the power sector. One needs not to be reminded about mess which took place in the administrative circles across the state during the period from 1987 to 1996. Vijay Bakaya served from August 2005 to April 2006. This was the time when Mufti Mohammed Sayeed was Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir.
A senior officer said that Bakaya was one of the planners of what is now being described as Populist measure aimed at ruining the state. He was followed by C.Phunsung, another Bureaucrat who preferred not to hold card of any political dispensation. He retired and left the state. Kundal was plain bureaucrat until the day he was touched by the work culture of ex-Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad.
He took over from Phunsung in November 2007 and retired in July 2008, a month before the infamous Amarnath agitation. He served for seven months. With a promise of being elevated as Power Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Kundal resigned from the administrative set-up and was soon inducted in the upper house of the state legislature.
However, even before he could be crowned as Power Minister, PDP-Congress government was brought down by infamous Amaranth land agitation. If the officers in the civil secretariat are to be believed, the three by joining political parties have allowed wagging of tongues on their contribution in the state's administrative, political and social set-up.
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