Srinagar: Reacting sharply to the statement made by Peoples Democratic Party leader and MLC Khurshid Alam that Kashmir Economic Alliance (KEA),Chairman,Muhammad Yasin Khan was “poking nose into education to be in headlines”, the KEA said education of children has to be concern of every individual in a civilized society that too when their career is being ruined by the government itself.
The KEA Media Head, Farhan Kitab in a statement said the KEA has evolved out of the efforts of the civil society and thus finds its responsibility to keep an eye on everything pertaining to the society and its interests than to talk of business in isolation.
The KEA said: “It is encouraging that PDP has given charge of defending the misadventures of the education minister to a former Assistant Storekeeper, whose success is allegedly a mysterious story of rags to riches. But Kashmir Inc would appreciate the efforts of the ruling government more if this statement had come from a genuinely educated face in the PDP.”
Taking a dig at Aalam’s statement that holding two exams the government has made a “historic decision”, the KEA reiterated its query if the session will be treated as November or March? “If history is made by ambiguity and confusion to meet egos then let Education Minister Naeem Akhter enforce final exams every month for more of ‘historic’ decisions,” the KEA said asking the government to call an open debate over the issue.
“If the government is so sincere, let it call an open debate where civil society from our side will prove that this enforcement of examinations is nothing but war of egos at the cost of career of around one lakh students,” the Kashmir Economic Alliance said adding apart from local press even the New Delhi based media has already exposed this plot.
The KEA said though Khurshid Aalam is the “Rudala” of the incumbent regime, he doesn’t know, which shoes to step in to shed crocodile tears and how. “We the people of Kashmir will appreciate if the government orders an inquiry into his assets and how he minted it all.”