Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Oct 28: A section of daily wage and casual employees today alleged that the ruling National Conference “sabotaged” the move of regularisation of over 60,000 labourers, saying they would launch a campaign against the party during the upcoming Assembly elections.
“The present Coalition Government has blackmailed thousands of poor employees from the last six years on one pretext or the other,” president, Jammu and Kashmir Casual and Daily Wagers Forum of PHE Department Sajad Ahmad Parray told reporters here.
“It played with our sentiments and at the end of their turn these politicians sabotaged our regularisation,” Parray said.
“It was done at the eleventh hour only because the close relatives of NC Ministers and their workers were not included in the final list,” he alleged.
Parray accused the party of making “backdoor entries” in various departments and said he would disclose the exact figures in few days.
“Some 69 employees were adjusted in the final list from South Kashmir’s Kulgam district, 1,111 candidates from Baramulla district and 118 from Srinagar by these politicians. We will disclose the exact figures of illegal appointments in different departments made by the politicians within some days,” he said.
He said the employees would move the courts for their genuine demands and seek for justice.
“We have contributed our youthful days for the welfare of our departments and deserve the regularisation, but vested interested politicians marred our future. Nobody could stop us from seeking justice and our struggle will continue,” he said.
“We would launch a door to door campaign against the NC during the elections,” he added.
The issue of regularisation of these employees has become a hot issue after the Minister for PHE, Irrigation and Flood Control, Sham Lal Sharma, tendered his resignation from the Cabinet last week, accusing his coalition partner NC of sabotaging the move.
The National Conference hit back at Sharma yesterday accusing him to trying to “polarise” the State ahead of the elections by “misconceived and false” statements.
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