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| Former Hurriyat leader’s family ‘lobbies’ for job to kin | | | Sanjay Pandita
Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 2: The family members of a former Hurriyat leader are “lobbying” for a government job for their kin.
Sources said the family is lobbying in the corridors of power that their kin be given a job in the department where she is among the applicants.
Sources said “the family has been in touch with numerous quarters in the corridors of power with the request.”
It was reliably learnt that the former Hurriyat leader was expelled from the party in 2015. The sources said the Hurriyat leader was expelled after he had raised a revolt against the then separatist camp.
The leader had claimed that Hurriyat leaders had lost their credibility among people and that the amalgam had become redundant as it was even unable to open offices in various districts of Kashmir then.
His family was subsequently believed to be close to the Peoples Democratic Party till the party led by former Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti broke to pieces in 2018 after the collapse of its alliance with the Bharatiya Janta Party.
Sources said since then the family of the former Hurriyat leader has been in touch with other parties “to be in their good books.”
Sources in the administration, however, said there was no possibility of anyone getting a government job without merit. “Unless a policy is formulated to endorse such requests, only merit will prevail,” said an official on the condition of anonymity adding that he was unaware of any such “request”.
He said for any job, merit decides the selection process and that the government was committed to transparency in any recruitment process.
The rumors of the family of the former Hurriyat leader lobbying for job are rife at a time when the Jammu and Kashmir government has already ordered probes into numerous job scams including those at the Jammu and Kashmir Services Selection Board.
Pertinently the Modi government has sacked kin of many of the separatists including Syed Ali Geelani’s grandson, who were “unduly given jobs by the dynasts during the previous regimes.”
Despite repeated attempts the said leader couldn’t be contacted for comments. |
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