NC holds anti-govt rally in Banihal

Terming the PDP-BJP coalition government a "dismal failure", Opposition National Conference today held a protest rally against it here.
"The coalition has messed up governance with competitive politics to score political points over one another as a result of which the people of Jammu, Kashmir, and Ladakh were suffering," National Conference District President Ramban Sajjad Shaheen said.
Accusing the coalition of making hollow promises, he said, "The coalition government has certainly succeeded in making hollow commitments, which they know are not to be kept".
Shaheen led a large number of people to submit a memorandum to the government through the Sub-Divisional Magistrate, which, inter-alia, raises the issue of new recruitment policy and "discriminatory" treatment meted out to people belonging to a particular community by evicting them from their lands.

On the issue of new recruitment policy, he said, "By ignoring well established institutions to ensure fair selection to various slots in the government departments, the government is attempting to commercialise and politicise jobs, which will have highly demoralising impact on the educated unemployed".
He alleged that the move was a brazen attempt to bypass the well established mechanism of recruitment agencies like Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission (JKPSC) and State Subordinate Recruitment Board (SSRB).
"This is a calculated move to undermine the constitutional role of these institutions, which is fraught with danger of encouraging corruption, nepotism and exploitation of unemployed," he said.