J&K Gujjar leaders urged the Chief Minister to be fair with Gujjars

Srinagar, May 24  – The  Gujjar Bakerwal  Tribe of Jammu and Kashmir today strongly urged the Chief Minister, Omar Abdullaha to intervene as Chairman  to improvise the working of J&K State Advisory Board for Development of Gujjar and Bakerwal or wind up the same,  as the organization has miserably failed to serve the tribal community in the State.

Demanding the removal of non Gujjar staff from the Board the Gujjar leaders belongs  to different remote districts,  under the banner of "Joint Forum" in a joint statement issued here  alleged that the bureaucratic , biased and communal approach of non-Gujjar  Secretary  and other staff members of State Gujjar Board in Civil Secretariat, pushed the tribe to the wall which is painful and intolerable.  

Terming this as a awful example of Social injustice  Haji Shamsher Ali Boken, State President of Jammu and Kashmir, Gujjar Bakerwal Joint Forum said that plight of Gujjars in the State can be perceived from their existence in the "Gujjar  Board" which is only Government department   working for Gujjar Affairs in Civil Secretariat having  16 staff members from "Vice Chairman" to orderly and there are only one  orderly    from Gujjar community are working in this board adding that  continuation of Non-Gujjar  Secretary and other staff  in "Gujjar Board"  is a conspiracy  against us in order  to the sidelines  Gujjar Tribe in the State in their own affairs  who are  already  at the bottom of the heap when it comes to benefits from various level.

"The non Gujjar staff  are humiliating and harassing Gujjars in their own Board meant for we people" said Mohammad Din Dhakar adding that the Governor should intervene and change the staff including the Secretary and appoint the staff belongs to Gujjar Community in the Board.

Further more the forum accused the present government has been adopting a calculated attitude to victimized  the Gujjar Officers and employees working in the State government by ignoring them postings in the important departments of State govt. and not providing   promotional avenues available under reservation laws  and  pursuing unlawful neglect of the Gujjars and Bakerwals, the third largest ethnic group  of Jammu and Kashmir,   in each and every field of life

"Our  KAS   and  KPS officers are being ignored margnilsed, neglected  by virtue of their postings.  They are being harassed and are been posted in cells , tribunals and other less important departments. This seems to be well established   conspiracy against Gujjars" said Razaq Poswal.

Chowdhary Fazal Din Mushtaq Stated that the Govt has   sabotaged  the constitutional safeguards  available to the Gujjars of Jammu and Kashmir through the Scheduled Tribe status provided by the Government of India way back in 1991,   . He said that there appears to be well thought out conspiracy to make Gujjars and Bakerwals play a second fiddle even though they are always in the face of numerous hardships.

Prominent Gujjar leader, Ch. Mohammad Aslam Stated that Gujjars are the worst sufferers of the policies of the coalition government and   their so called  concept of healing touch. He said all funds meant for the welfare and socio-economic development of the Gujjars are being diverted to other schemes thus making a mockery of the constitutional provisions. Ali Mohammad Chechi  urged the Chief Minister  to be fair with Gujjars, in other case they shall be compelled to presume their case through other means as well.

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