Educated youth torch degrees protesting jobs to stone pelters;Jobs to anti-nationals, exploitation of educated youth intolerable: Harsh

 STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: Launching a scathing attack on the State Government for providing ex-gratia and government jobs to stone pelters with exploitation of educated youth going unabated, Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party staged a furious protest seeking revocation of the draconian announcement besides absorption of the deserving educated youth in the government services.
A large number of Panthers activist led by Harsh Dev Singh, Chairman JKNPP, Yash Paul Kundal State President Young Panthers along with several educated youth gathering at Exhibition Ground, here.
Amid raising anti-government slogans, the highly qualified contingent of youth including PhDs, MPhils and double post graduates besides terminated contractual lecturers consigned their degrees to flames to express their embitterment and outrage against the ‘black regime’ of sinister BJP-PDP alliance.
Dubbing the State government’s announcement of ex-gratia and jobs to NoKs of slain militants and stone pelters as highly offensive and opprobrious, Harsh regretted that in the black rule of BJP partnered dispensation in the State ,the subversives were glorified where as the educated youth were exploited, suppressed and treated like expendables.
He said that even the martyrs of the nation were made subjects of contemptuous mockery as the State coffers remained dry for them with hardly any policy of compensation to their bereaved families. Disconcerted by the Govt.’s obnoxious policy to provide compensation with jobs to thousand of stone pelters including the injured besides the kins of slain subversives and militants in the valley, he said that the people who had set Kashmir on fire, danced to the tunes of secessionists, supported Burhan Wani’s ideology, attacked army camps, pelted stones on the security forces, snatched weapons from the defense personnel, torched schools and public property, unfurled Pak/ ISIS flags , shouted anti -India slogans and waged war against the State deserved to be punished under the law. And contrarily, the State Government continued to pursue the policy of use and throw towards the educated youth, Harsh lamented.
Expressing anguish over the exploitation of the young fraternity, he said thousands of youth had fled to other states for jobs and several thousand engaged as casual and need based workers in various departments besides ReTs, NHM and Anganwari workers were made to languish in open with no wages to them for several months. Similarly, the contractual lecturers working in the educational institutions since 5-15 years with the hope of getting regularized were paid peanut salaries and several of them had been ruthlessly terminated by the government after exploiting their services for more than a decade, he added. Dismayed over the protesting youth including such lecturers consigning their degrees to flames, Singh wondered that what kind of justice the alliance was doling to the youth where the anti-nationals were given compensation and employment while the educated youth were pushed towards starvation and other miseries. He vociferously asserted that only NoKs of martyrs and other nationalists who laid down their lives for the Motherland should be given the ex-gratia compensation and similarly the educated youth with adequate qualifications deserved the government jobs.
Singh sought an immediate revocation of the devilish announcement in the interest of the State and national dignity.
Lampooning the State Government and the BJP in particular for becoming a party in the process of offering incentives to the subversive anti-nationals, Yash Paul Kundal accused the saffron brigade for towing the line of the separatists and the militant out fits active in the Valley. He said that the BJP once again bowed on its knee before the PDP when their Working Committee’s resolution opposing the compensation to the stone pelters was tossed to the wind by the latter inside the Assembly before the derisive opposition and the stunned media.
Prominent among those who spoke on the occasion included Rajesh Padgotra, Gagan Pratap, Sanjeev Verma, Purshotam Parihar, Khajoor Singh, Raj Kumar, Kewal Krishan Sharma, Rajesh Gondhi, Sansar Chand, Udhayveer, Kailash Mohan, Vinod Kumar, Gurjeet Singh, Balvinder Kour, Seema Sharma, Anil Kumar besides others.