Bharatiya Janata Social gathering chief Sunil Sharma’s demand of constructing the working data of Urdu non-mandatory for the Naib Tehsildar examination in Jammu and Kashmir has raised issues within the Valley, with each the ruling Nationwide Convention and Opposition Peoples Democratic Social gathering (PDP) accusing the celebration of “erasing J&Okay’s cultural legacy.”
On Thursday, J&Okay Chief of Opposition Sunil Sharma referred to as on Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha and sought his intervention, saying that making one in every of J&Okay’s 5 official languages “violates the constitutional rules of equal alternative and administrative impartiality, and it creates an unfair barrier, notably disadvantaging aspirants from the Jammu Division”.
Sharma was accompanied by BJP’s J&Okay unit president Sat Sharma
Sharma’s demand comes after the J&Okay Providers Choice Board’s (JKSSB) June 9 notification for 75 income posts. In its tips for the examination, the SSB specified that paper two of the examination will comprise checking the candidate’s “working data of Urdu”. Urdu is utilized in income data, land settlements, court docket judgments in addition to authorized correspondence within the UT, making a purposeful data of the language vital for revenue-related positions.
Nonetheless, Nationwide Convention MLA and the celebration’s chief spokesperson Tanvir Sadiq condemned the BJP chief’s demand, emphasising that the place of Urdu in J&Okay’s income, judicial and administrative system is “rooted in historical past, not in any political or sectarian agenda”.
Urdu, he stated, turned the official administrative language of J&Okay over 130 years in the past throughout Maharaja’s reign, “evolving naturally as a unifying and purposeful language for all areas and communities”.
PDP’s Pulwama MLA Waheed Para additionally warned in opposition to eradicating the language requirement stating that the demand “dangers erasing J&Okay’s wealthy archive and cultural legacy”.
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“Urdu is greater than a language, it’s a key a part of the area’s heritage. Undermining it divides communities and rewrites reminiscence,” he stated.