Jammu: Lambasting the BJP for the bias perpetuated against Jammu region after its ascendance to power including the extension in the scope of discrimination to cover the Jammu based KAS officers, Mr. Harsh Dev Singh regretted that hardly two KAS officers of Jammu region had been posted as Deputy commissioners as against 10 Kashmir based KAS officers posted as DCs in 10 different Districts. Giving the details, Mr. Singh pointed out that out of 10 Kashmir Districts, 8 were headed by local KAS officers and two by IAS officers with one of the said IAS officers also being a KAS inductee. And similarly he said, that out of 10 Districts in Jammu region 8 were headed by IAS officers and remaining two by KAS officers of the so called “Chenab Valley”. Not only that even the Kashmir Divisional Commissioner was also a KAS officer which revealed the priority given by the PDP-BJP Govt. to local officers of the KAS rank of Kashmir region. Contrarily not a single Jammu based minority community KAS officer had been given such posting despite the BJP’s chest thumping and claiming itself to be the champion of Jammu cause.
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Further pointing towards the highly egregious nomenclature given to the state administrative services as “KAS” and “KPS”, Mr. Singh sought the renaming and rechristening of the same as “JKAS” and “JKPS”. Asserting that it would be a misnomer to call the said services as “KAS” and “KPS”, Mr. Singh said that identity of Jammu region could no longer be allowed to be pushed into the oblivion. He called upon the BJP Ministers to refresh their memories and give a peep into the days of their opposition when they would create huge Jangle and rattle in the Assembly on such issues. He regretted that the very taste of power had changed their priorities and converted all their rage into glacier.
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Ridiculing the tantrums of BJP Ministers in the recent cabinet meet, Mr. Harsh Dev Singh accused them of creating hue and cry without a logical understanding of the subject. He said that the opposition of BJP to the proposal of making KPS officers (JKPS) at par with KAS (JKAS) officers was ridiculous. He lamented that the BJP Minsters failed to understand that there was nothing in the proposal that a police officer would be given rank of DIG or IGP. He regretted that half baked BJP Ministers created a ruckus in the cabinet without understating that it was merely grade enhancement for non-uniform, non-descript posts which was listed in the agenda items before the cabinet and that too for Home Guards, Human Rights, Vigilance, Tele-communication and Forensic sciences. Mr. Harsh Dev Singh further castigated the BJP Ministers for their failure to agitate the real issue of KPS (JKPS) officers in the cabinet regarding their stagnation for the last eight years. He said that despite the vacancies of atleast 50 posts of IPS for induction from the quota of KPS (JKPS), no action had been taken for the last eight years to induct such local officers. He further expressed concern over 75 KPS officers working as SPs for the last 11 years without further promotions with the BJP deliriously oblivious of their concerns. He said that by their absurd posturing and reckless behaviour, the BJP Ministers had rendered themselves as objects of contemptuous humorous disparagement. Calling upon the Minsters to do their home work properly, Mr. Singh cautioned them to work for pubic good and end the bias against Jammu region or be prepared to face consequences.
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