An unwanted remark by the Chief Secretary B V R Subrahmanyam has brought him at the centre of a heated political row over the public response to detentions of mainstream and political leaders. All mainstreams parties have come out with condemnation statement against the Chief Secretary asking him not to make political remarks in contravention of service conduct rules. Whatever may be accusation of the Chief Secretary and counter accusations of the top mainstream parties but the fact remains that Chief Secretary does not reserve the right to go public on the issues concerning politicians and their party affairs as only Lt Governor and his advisors reserve the right to speak on issues concerning politicians and their party affairs. In fact the statement of Chief Secretary is similar to the statements of Union Home Minister made by him on detentions of political leaders in Jammu & Kashmir and as such the remark of Chief Secretary by all standards of understandabilities is obviously an attempt to appease top helmsmen in Delhi particularly Home Minister Amit Shah and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Though Chief Secretary reserves the right to talk about corruption but when the top helmsmen of the government are themselves facing trial in anti-corruption courts, a responsible top public functionary like Chief Secretary ceases the moral right to talk about crusade against corruption. The incumbent government can’t talk about corruption as one of the advisors is facing trial in the trial court in connection with his alleged involvement in one of the biggest land scandals that surfaced year’s ago in Jammu & Kashmit. Ironically the incumbent government too has not good track record in it’s crusade against corruption as it did not object to the release of former Deputy Mayor Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) Sheik Imran on bail after he was arrested last year on charges of involvement in a huge bank fraud case. No objection to release of an alleged bank fraudster to facilitate his contest for the election of Mayor and allowing a key accused of a huge land scandal case to occupy the position of Advisor to Lieutenant Governor are the two highly objectionable actions of the government which go against it’s claims on crusade against corruption. People reserve the right to seek explanation from the government over it’s inaction against a former BJP minister whose name has recently surfaced in a fresh land scandal case in Jammu region.
People reserve the right to seek explanation from new Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha both on the violation of standing rules and procedures in crusade against corruption and as well violation of service conduct rules by the senior IAS officers in discharge of their duties concerning enforcement of key laws recently enforced in Jammu & Kashmir .
Interestingly a senior IAS officer was recently at the centre of political controversy over a domicile certificate issued to him immediately after the enforcement of domicile law in Jammu & Kashmir but government did not bother to seek even a single explanation from said IAS officer for violating the service conduct rules. On the contrary a local senior retired IAS officer who happens to be Ex Chairman J&K Public Service Commission was denied domicile certificate even after furnishing all the required documents to the concerned authorities but the domicile certificate was issued to him only after a complaint from the said retired local IAS officer hit the newspaper headlines. People reserve the right to seek explanation from new Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha both on the violation of standing rules and procedures in crusade against corruption and as well violation of service conduct rules by the senior IAS officers in discharge of their duties concerning enforcement of key laws recently enforced in Jammu & Kashmir.
