Joint Consultative Committee (JCC), an amalgam of government employee unions, here, ‘has threatened to launch a campaign aimed to uncover the massive bungling by bureaucrats and politicians by disclosing their undisclosed assets’.
Termed as ‘Operation Blue’, Qayoom Wani, Employees Joint Action Committee (Q) told Kashmir Dispatch, “We have the monetary information of all the politicians and the bureaucrats of our so called democratic state, and if our demands would not be fulfilled within a given deadline we would divert all the information to media and central government.”
Wani said they would go ahead ‘with the unraveling of the illegal assets of the politicians and bureaucrats’ if the government failed to meet their demands by August 6.
Thousands of employees on Monday on the call of JCC had gathered at Exhibition crossing in the heart of the city and started marching towards the nearby Civil Secretariat in the afternoon.
The JCC had announced “Secretariat Gherao” and threatened to intensify the agitation if the demands of the employees were not met immediately.
Police used baton and water-canons against the protesting employees. Many among them were detained also.
Stating that yesterday’s act as “brutal and undemocratic”, Khursheed Alam member JCC said, “The state has always used its forces against the poor and destitute employee who are pushing for their genuine demands.”
Both the employee leaders have now asked their members from the three divisions of the state not to attend offices on August 5 and hold sit-in protests outside their offices on August 6.
After prolonged agitation till May last year, the employees had called off their strike after the assurance by the government and cabinet sub-committee that their demands would be fulfilled in due course of time.
The demands included release of arrears in cash in favour of the retiree employees, enhancement of retirement age from 58 to 60, regularization of about 50000 ad hoc and other temporary employees, and redressal of pay anomalies in different cadres.
Both the leaders have demanded chief minister, Omar Abdullah to immediately address the employees’ demands.
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