Though political morality demands the political persons owing their allegiance to PDP and BJP should have on their own sent their resignations to the government after the fall of the PDP-BJP government headed by Mehbooba Mufti but shocking it is that most of the political appointees of the previous coalition government have not sent their resignation letters even after the leaders of top political parties including National Conference Vice President and former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah raised question on their continuation in his tweets. Interestingly not even a single political appointee of BJP commanding and controlling the central government has sent resignation to the governor and some top PDP leaders continue to occupy the key positions including Vice Chairman Jammu & Kashmir Wakf Board and Vice Chairman Jammu & Kashmir State Power Development Corporation (J&K SPDC). Now when most of the political appointees have not sent their resignations the governor N N Vohra is constitutionally and morally bound to sack all such political appointees who have not tendered their resignations yet. Since continuation of the political appointees is against the political conventions and normal procedures, their continuation on key positions in Public Sector Undertakings and autonomous bodies deserved immediate intervention of the governor who is now heading the government.
As the never ending cash crunch has become a key factor for the government to show its inability to extend the benefits of 7th Pay commission recommendation to various categories of employees including SSA teachers of the school education department and employees of most of the public sector undertakings (PSUs) the intervention of the governor for the removal of political appointees in larger interests of financial accountability and institutional transparency has become imperative and unavoidable.
The critics are within their rights to question the continuation of political appointees after the fall of PDP-BJP government as heads of some key Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) and autonomous bodies of the state government. In fact the appointments of the party functionaries of PDP and BJP was questioned in the very beginning the financial constraints of the cash starved state but unfortunately the previous Mehbooba government preferred the rehabilitation of the defeated candidates of PDP and BJP over the financial austerity which was required to address much larger issues concerning economic stability of the state. As the never ending cash crunch has become a key factor for the government to show its inability to extend the benefits of 7th Pay commission recommendation to various categories of employees including SSA teachers of the school education department and employees of most of the public sector undertakings (PSUs) the intervention of the governor for the removal of political appointees in larger interests of financial accountability and institutional transparency has become imperative and unavoidable.
