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| Admin to review list of gazetted holidays, Dec 5 to be a normal working day | | Sheikh Abdullah's birthday no longer gazetted holiday | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Sept 26: A gazetted holiday on the birthday of NC founder Sheikh Abdullah held every year on December 5 is likely going to be a thing of the past as the Jammu and Kashmir administration has decided to omit the day out from the list of the gazetted holidays.
As per the reports, the Jammu and Kashmir administration is reviewing the list of the gazetted holidays that shall be observed in the Union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and that it is likely to be decided that the holiday observed every year on the birth anniversary of National conference founder Sheikh Abdullah shall no longer be observed.
It has also been found that the birth date that the NC claims to be of its founder is in actual a wrong entry and the exact date is unknown till date even to the people who claim to have been carrying forward the legacy of NC founder.
Pertinent to mention that noted historian and senior NC leader Mohammad Yusuf Taing revealed much earlier that December 5 is not the actual birth date of National Conference founder Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah and that Sheikh was actually born on January 29 and his year of birth was 1903 and not 1905 as mentioned in the official records. Much to the disappointment of the people of the state, the date entry was not changed by the Omar Abdullah led coalition government in the state rather JK continues to have a state wide holiday on December 5 every year- marking the birth anniversary of the NC founder.
Taing has worked as a literary assistant to Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah during the compilation of latter's book Aatsih-e-Chinar. He made the revelations three years earlier that he has done an 'extensive' research on the subject and that Sheikh has not mentioned his birth date as December 5 in his autobiography.
"I argued with Sheikh Abdullah about this issue and told him that December 5 is not his actual date of birth as per his research. Sheikh admitted that his elder brother may have registered his wrong birth date and not the actual year of birth," said Taing,
Astonishingly, the state government paid no heed to such vital revelations, rather turned blind eye towards guiding people of JK in a right direction.
Experts believe that observing December 5 as a state holiday is in no way justified when Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah himself did not know at what date he was actually born. Though NC leader Mohammad Yosuf Taing has claimed Sheikh was born on January 29, 1903, official records in the state are adamant to mention NC founder's birth date as December 5, 1905- subtracting two years from Sheikh Abdullah's age.
"This important fact in no way can be bundled as some useless piece of information. The next generation of the state of Jammu and Kashmir has every right to know and read the accurate history. If NC is hiding such an important piece of history, how such a party could be trusted by the people," says one of the research scholars wishing not to be named. |
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