early times report
jammu, Feb 10: In his farewell speech in Rajya Sabha, the Peoples Democratic Party's outgoing Rajya Sabha MP, Mir Muhammad Fayaz while appreciating the Modi government dropped a bombshell saying that the bureaucrats posted in Jammu and Kashmir had been creating hurdles in the deliverance of good governance.
Mir's utterances somehow vindicate that how the daily Early Times is being pushed to witch-hunt by a section in bureaucracy, which looks averse to our uncompromising reportage against corruption.
In his speech in Rajya Sabha on February 9, Fayaz, who is due to retire next week, lauded schemes launched by the Modi government, including the Ujjwala Yojana. Fayaz also mentioned multiple Ministers including late Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal, former Health Minister JP Nadda, MoS PMO Jitendra Singh and recounted how they had extended support to Jammu and Kashmir whenever help was sought from them.
He, however, openly exposed the role of some bureaucrats accusing them of putting people to problems.
"Here Piyush Ji is there, Jaitley Sahab was here, Nadda Sahab was here, Jitendra Ji is there, Pradhan Ji is there. Whenever we went to them with issues concerning our state, they never said no to us. If there was any problem, it was because of people such as bureaucrats sitting in my state. From here(New Delhi), they haven't said no to anything," Mir added.
For the daily Early Times, in its efforts for even strong nation building, it has been a sustained professional campaign, essentially on two fronts. One, the war against terror and its related separatist sentiment. Two, the zero-tolerance against corruption.
For our war against the anti-national forces, the Early Times, already braves death threats from international terror groups while over the years, the police have filed FIRs.
The policy of this widely circulated nationalist daily, goes much in line with the iconic slogan of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Na Khawunga Na KhaneDunga. But a section of bureaucrats are out to muzzle this voice for obvious reasons.
The newspaper continues to be pushed to financial crunch by some officials, when actually Jammu and Kashmir, is blessed with man of integrity and dynamism-Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, whose Raj Bhawan office needs to look into such discrimination with the nationalists.
The professional reporting of the Early Times against corruption can actually help the LG know more about rot in the system and thus strengthen his war against corruption for deliverance of good governance.
Ironically, however, the Information department has been denying the ET of its due share of government advertisements thereby putting us to financial crunch, when the economy is already into red due to Covid lockdown.
The step motherly treatment as meted by the dynasts during the previous regimes was quite expected. But what is expected during the regime of iconic LG Manoj Sinha is that the discrimination with the Early Times comes to an end to make Jammu and Kashmir contribute more in making India even stronger-Jai Hind! |
