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| Gross Discrimination Appointments in Jammu & Kashmir Bank | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 30: People of Kashmir, excluding non-Muslims, have been dominating every institution in the State since October 1947 and systematically excluding the people of Jammu Province from all the institutions, political, economic and social. As a result, the people of this province are conspicuous by their absence in all or nearly all the crucial institutions. The story of representation of the Jammu youth in the Jammu and Kashmir Bank is no different. The reason why the Jammu youth do not get their due share in this State-owned bank is that its Chairman has been mostly from Kashmir after 1947. The present Chairman is from Kashmir. His predecessor was from Kashmir, his predecessor's predecessor was from Kashmir and the story goes on like this. So it is not something extraordinary that the Kashmiri-controlled Jammu and Kashmir Bank, which also has its headquarters at Srinagar, prefers candidates for various posts from Kashmir with the rigorously excluded Jammu youth having no other option but to bemoan their fate, chaff and criticize the Jammu leadership for its utter failure to obtain justice for them. They are simply seething with anger. What else can they do?
The latest example of glaring discrimination with the Jammu youth was the selection of 1300 Kashmiri youth out of the 1600 advertised positions in the Jammu and Kashmir Bank. It was none other than the National Panther’s Party (NPP) MLA and former Cabinet Minister Harsh Dev Singh who had lambasted the State Government saying the "Jammu region is being ignored" and that an inquiry committee should be constituted to look into the circumstances under which 1300 out of 1600 advertised posts in the Jammu and Kashmir Bank went to Kashmir. He had vociferously raised the issue in the last Assembly session. It was heartening to note that other Jammu-based MLAs, mostly those belonging to the NPP, the BJP and the JSM, had also joined hands with Harsh Dev and accused the State Government of perpetrating injustice after injustice on the people of "Jammu region" and they had done it by knowing it fully well that nothing would be done to compensate the Jammu youth.
The Jammu-based MLAs, it needs to be underlined, had asked the concerned authorities to explain the reasons responsible for the exclusion of the Jammu youth from the list of selected candidates or for the selection of 1300 candidates from Kashmir, but nothing had come out of their efforts and protests. Instead, Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather, on behalf of the Government, had replied that the "bank is an autonomous body and it cannot be discussed in the House". Not satisfied with the Finance Minister's reply, the NPP, BJP and the JSM MLAs had created noisy scenes in the House, shouted anti-Government slogans and finally staged walkout. It happened more than a month ago.
It appears these Jammu-based parties have completely forgotten this issue. How else should one describe the fact that none of the NPP, BJP and JSM MLAs has after March 31 said a single word on the issue that has been agitating the minds of the Jammu youth since the publication of the list of the selected candidates. It's no wonder then that the authorities in the Jammu and Kashmir Bank are feeling greatly relieved believing - and very rightly - that the Jammu leadership never takes up any issue seriously or it is not committed to what it says. Had the Jammu leadership really upped the ante and maintained pressure by continuously raking up this issue, things today would have been somewhat different.
The politics of creating noisy scenes in the House, shouting anti-Government slogans, staging walkouts and subsequently forgetting the issues is not going to move the biased authorities. Nor is this kind of politics going to help the people of Jammu Province. They need an administration that is their own. They just cannot hope for justice and fair play under the existing system that only puts persons from Kashmir at the helm in all or nearly all the departments and institutions, including the financial institutions like the Jammu and Kashmir Bank Limited. Only separation from Kashmir can enable them exercise the rights they legitimately deserve as part and parcel of the Indian society. To be more exact, in complete separation from Kashmir lies the Jammu's salvation. |
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