SRINAGAR: Head of Jammu & Kashmir’s bureaucracy BVR Subrahmanyam Friday triggered a political storm in Kashmir with his remarks that “not a single soul cried” over the detention of political leaders after J&K was stripped off its special status August last year.
Chief Secretary BVR Subramanyam addressing a press conference at Srinagar on Wednesday, June 12, 2019. KL Image by Bilal Bahadur
Reacting to his assertions, the unionist leaders in the Valley asked Subrahmanyam to “do his job rather than dabbling into politics”.
Influential Shia leader and former minister Imran Reza Ansari has asked CS Subrahmanyam of “focussing on his job.” “So MR CS. Now u have been here for two years. And u have been the boss. Wonder how many people will cry if u r arrested.Hope u focus on ur job rather than dabbling in politics. Please for god’s sake do your job what you are best atDecide new date for meeting) @AmitShah @PMOIndia,” tweeted Ansari.
So MR CS. Now u have been here for two years. And u have been the boss .Wonder how many people will cry if u r arrested.Hope u focus on ur job rather than dabbling in politics.Please for god’s sake do your job what you are best atDecide new date for meeting) @AmitShah @PMOIndia
— Imran Reza Ansari (@imranrezaansari) August 7, 2020
The controversy emerged after a report quoted Subrahmanyam as saying: “Jammu and Kashmir was a broken state and there was no system in place due to years of misgovernance, corruption and unbelievable levels of fraud committed by leaders of mainstream parties and separatist organisations. There, not a single soul cried over the detention of political and separatist leaders in August last year.” He said this while speaking with a group of visiting journalists, stated the report.
A 1987-batch IAS officer who was hand-picked by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said misgovernance and corruption had continued for so long that the system collapsed from inside.
“There was a terrible situation here. Things were designed for corruption. Mis-governance and corruption were for so long that the system has collapsed from inside. The whole state was a big Ponzi scheme,” he is quoted to have said.
As reported, he has said frauds in J&K were at “unbelievable levels”. “There were frauds in jobs, frauds in projects, frauds were everywhere”.
“The JK Bank CMD was the scamster number one. Twenty families or a maximum of 30 families milked the JK Bank. There was no accountability. All other PSUs (public sector undertakings) in other states submit their report to the assembly, the PSUs in other states come under RTI, CVC (Central Vigilance Commission). But the JK Bank is accountable to none,” he said.
Asked about the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir, Subrahmanyam said, “The day I can drive down to Pulwama just with my driver without police escort and pilot, we can safely say that the peace has returned to Jammu and Kashmir.”
National Conference’s spokesman, Imran Nabi Dar has said there is no “difference between politician and bureaucrat in today’s J&K. “The line that CS of J&K has taken is similar to what BJP and its leadership has been parroting all year post-August 05. All the pretentions of him being impartial and fair seems to be gone. One really can’t differentiate between a politician and a bureaucrat in today’s J&K,” he wrote on Twitter.
The line that CS of J&K has taken is similar to what BJP and its leadership has been parroting all year post Aug 05. All the pretentions of him being impartial and fair seems to be gone.
One really cant different between a politician and a bureaucrat in today's J&K.
— Imran Nabi Dar (@ImranNDar) August 7, 2020
“After putting a bird in the cage you cannot conclude that it doesn’t want to fly. His statements do not come as a surprise. They reflect the inherent agenda of the incumbent to demean people of J&K and their leaders and everything else they have held close,” he added.
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