Politics
Kashmiri lives matter, says Shah Faesal after resigning from bureaucracy
Srinagar: Shah Faesal, who resigned form Indian Administrative Services on Wednesday said that he took the step to protest against the ‘unabated killings and lack of political outreach from New Delhi.’
Faesal took to social media to give his reasons. On twitter, saying that ‘Kashmiri lives matter, he has decided to join politics. He added that he will address the media on Friday.
To protest the unabated killings in Kashmir and absence of any credible political initiative from Union Government, I have decided to resign from IAS.
Kashmiri lives matter.
I will be addressing a press-conference on Friday.
Attached is my detailed statement. pic.twitter.com/Dp41rFIzIg— Shah Faesal (@shahfaesal) January 9, 2019
In a Facebook post, Faesal said, “To protest against the unabated killings in Kashmir, and lack of any sincere reach-out from the Union Government; the marginalization and invisiblization of around 200 million Indian Muslims at the hands of Hindutva forces reducing them to second-class citizens; insidious attacks on the special identity of the J&K State and growing culture of intolerance and hate in the mainland India in the name of hypernationalism, I have decided to resign from Indian Administrative Service.”
Faesal said he wished to remind the regime of the day that subversion of public institutions like RBI, CBI and NIA has the potential to decimate the Constitutional edifice of this Country and it needs to be stopped.
“I wish to reiterate that voices of reason in this country cannot be muzzled for long and the environment of siege will need to end if we wish to usher in true democracy,” he said his Facebook post.
Meanwhile, National Conference Vice President Omar Abdullah welcomed him into the political fold.
