Shah Faesal congrats teachers, students after resignation of Teachers forum President

SRINAGAR, FEB 02 (PTK):  Former IAS officer Shah Faesal today said the education department has got freedom today. He said this minutes after Jammu & Kashmir teachers forum president Abdul Qayoom Wani resigned from the services and joined PDP formally.

Faesal, who has also served as Director Education Kashmir, in a facebook post said, “Education Department gets freedom today.

Congrats to Teacher community and the school children who had been held hostage all these years. With masks down, Inshallah, Education will flourish now in the valley of Kashmir.”

The 2009 IAS topper said that it was time to reimagine politics in Kashmir. He also hit out at the forces whom he said were pitting one region of the state against another.

Earlier, Shah Faesal, said that he took the step to protest against the ‘unabated killings and lack of political outreach from New Delhi.’

Faesal, when asked that the ‘deep state might use him’, he replied that ‘he might end up using them.’

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.

On Thursday, Engineer Rashid offered him to join his party and said that he is ready to work with all those who speak about the sentiments and sacrifices of Kashmiris. (PTK)