Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 7: BJP spokesperson, Dr. Abhijeet Jasrotia, today criticized the National Conference (NC) for fuelling an unnecessary controversy around the Urdu language in the context of Naib Tehsildar recruitment.
Accompanied by media incharge, Dr. Pardeep Mahotra and Dr. Makson Tikoo, Dr. Jasrotia termed the issue as politically motivated and aimed at misleading the youth of Jammu and Kashmir. “Urdu is a sister language of Hindi and both have deep roots in Bharat. The attempt to portray it as an exclusive cultural identity is misleading,” he said.
He pointed out that during NC’s own tenure, the first recruitment rules for Naib Tehsildars in 1973 did not mandate Urdu as a compulsory qualification. “For three decades, this remained unchanged. It was only in 2003 when two parties – one responsible for the partition of Bharat and the other infamously involved in the Amarnath land row – joined hands and planted the seeds of division,” he said.
He further said that the clause making Urdu mandatory was kept in abeyance again in 2009 during another coalition regime involving NC. Dr. Jasrotia demanded an explanation from NC on why it is reigniting this controversy now.
“NC should explain to the youth why they are diverting attention from their unfulfilled promise of providing one lakh Government jobs, which they mentioned in their very first manifesto,” said Dr. Jasrotia.
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