BJP seek LG’s intervention as mandatory Urdu test for recruitment sparks outrage

JAMMU: The mandatory request of cognition of Urdu for recruitment arsenic naib tehsildars (revenue officials) successful Jammu and Kashmir has triggered uproar successful the Jammu division, with J&K BJP brass gathering LG Manoj Sinha connected Thursday to property for scrapping the move.The J&K Services Selection Board (JKSSB) issued a notification connected June 9 for the recruitment of 75 naib tehsildars, with Urdu connection trial designated compulsory to suffice for the post.The notification has youths and organisations up successful arms successful the Jammu region, wherever students mostly survey Hindi oregon Punjabi. Students and BJP-affiliated organisations person held protests decrying the determination and accusing the Omar Abdullah authorities of depriving Jammu’s youths of employment opportunities.J&K BJP president Sat Sharma and person of absorption successful the assembly Sunil Sharma connected Thursday called connected the LG and sought his intervention. Pointing retired that the UT had 5 authoritative languages — Hindi, English, Kashmiri, Dogri and Urdu — they said making the cognition of 1 of these languages mandatory violated the law principles of adjacent accidental and administrative impartiality. The determination created an unfair obstruction arsenic it was disadvantageous to aspirants from the Jammu division, they stressed.

BJP MLA Vikram Randhawa described the eligibility criterion arsenic a “conspiracy to artifact Jammu younker from securing govt jobs”. Former lawman CM Kavinder Gupta of the BJP demanded an contiguous reappraisal of the determination and called for ensuring a level playing tract to each candidates, irrespective of their determination and linguistic backgrounds.Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) activists held a monolithic protestation successful Jammu against what they termed a discriminatory and biased provision.

ABVP, too, organised protests astatine each territory office successful Jammu.Lashing retired astatine the Omar govt, caput of J&K section of BJYM, Arun Prabhat, said: “The imposition of Urdu is simply a deliberate effort to exclude deserving candidates from Jammu. Such determination favoritism volition not beryllium tolerated and we request an contiguous rollback.”A contention implicit the contented successful the past had prompted the J&K medication to determine successful Nov 2022 that Urdu would not beryllium mandatory for the naib tehsildar recruitment test, whenever these are held. Since then, JKSSB had not advertised immoderate vacancies for the station oregon initiated the recruitment process.However, J&K Urdu Coordination Committee, Kashmir wing, had astatine that clip expressed disappointment implicit the decision.