The BJP regime has dismissed three government employees from their duties in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.  According to Kashmir Media Service, the workers of the Jal Shakti Department were removed from service over alleged “pro-freedom” and anti-India activities, officials said. 

Official orders stated that Showkat Ahmad Zargar, Liyaqat Ali Bhagwan, and Kousar Hussain Bhagwan were dismissed under the draconian Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) from South Kashmir’s Islamabad and Kishtwar districts.  The administration, under the New Delhi-installed Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, labeled the employees as involved in “pro-freedom” or “anti-India” activities—a move critics describe as a deliberate attempt to marginalize local Kashmiris. 

The All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) in a statement strongly condemned the dismissals, calling them a “blatant violation of fundamental rights.”  Observers in Kashmir have expressed concern that these dismissals are part of a broader strategy to replace local employees with outsiders, thereby altering the demographic composition of the territory. The move is widely viewed as part of the BJP’s ongoing clampdown on dissent and its effort to tighten control over the region’s administrative machinery through the deployment of non-Kashmiri BJP/RSS officers.  

Credit: Independent News Pakistan (INP)