| BJP to launch mass movement against NC's alleged corrupt practices, Gherao Secretariat: Sunil Sharma | | |  Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, July 10: Launching a blistering attack on the Omar Abdullah-led National Conference (NC) government, Leader of the Opposition in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Sunil Sharma on Friday termed the government's outsourcing policy the "biggest-ever appointment scam" in Jammu and Kashmir and announced a state-wide agitation, accusing the administration of depriving meritorious youth of employment while facilitating backdoor appointments.
Addressing a press conference in Srinagar, Sharma alleged that the NC government had "shamelessly outsourced nearly 25,000 government jobs" and ensured the appointment of relatives and family members of party workers at the cost of deserving candidates.
Claiming that "legalised corruption" and a flourishing "transfer industry" were the only visible achievements of the present dispensation, Sharma accused the government of institutionalising corruption and turning public employment into a tool of political patronage.
"The biggest betrayal of Jammu and Kashmir's educated youth is underway. Thousands of deserving candidates have been denied their rightful opportunities, while influential people are being accommodated through outsourcing and backdoor recruitment," he alleged.
Calling the outsourcing policy an "appointment scandal," Sharma claimed that contractual appointments were being made through outsourcing agencies, effectively shutting the doors on qualified aspirants preparing for competitive recruitment.
He alleged that thousands of educated unemployed youth, who had invested years preparing for government jobs, were now staring at an uncertain future because of what he described as the government's "anti-youth recruitment policy."
The BJP leader further claimed that poor families, who had made immense sacrifices to educate their children with the hope of securing stable government employment, were now facing despair as recruitment on merit was allegedly being replaced by favouritism.
Launching a sharp attack on the Abdullah family, Sharma alleged that successive generations of the family had "consistently denied opportunities" to the youth of Jammu and Kashmir and were once again pushing them towards unemployment and uncertainty.
He also accused the government of presiding over rampant corruption, alleging that ministers and senior officials were running a thriving "transfer industry" where transfers and postings were allegedly being sold for money.
"There is rampant corruption in several government departments. Money collected through transfers and other means is allegedly being shared among ministers, bureaucrats and even filling the treasury of one family. The BJP possesses evidence of these irregularities," Sharma alleged, while demanding an independent probe into the functioning of departments, particularly those dealing with transfers and mining.
Taking a dig at the NC government's poll promises, Sharma said the ruling party had failed to fulfil key commitments made before the Assembly elections, including providing 10 kilograms of free ration, 200 units of free electricity, one lakh government jobs and 12 free LPG cylinders annually.
Instead of answering questions over its "governance failures," he alleged, the National Conference was attempting to divert public attention by organising a protest at Delhi's Jantar Mantar seeking the restoration of Jammu and Kashmir's statehood. |
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