A Pushy Centre Aims Big

J&K policy is rebooted with raids, other plans

- Naseer Ganai

WITH BJP president Amit Shah taking charge of the Union home ministry, there is a growing perception that he will be “decisive on the non-military front” in Jammu and Kashmir. Intelligence sources say the Narendra Modi government is exploring ideas such as delimitation of assembly constituencies and trifurcation of J&K, besides scrapping Article 35A of the Constitution. Meanwhile, Kashmir’s Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) raided the headquarters of J&K Bank in Srinagar on June 8. While people in Jammu celebrated the raid, those in the Valley took to social media for venting their rage against the bank mired in controversy since last year over large-scale “fraudulent” appointments allegedly made on the behest of the then ruling PDP.

The raid was carried out minutes after the government sacked J&K Bank chairman and managing director (CMD) Parvez Ahmed, whose three-year tenure was to end in October. The bank’s executive president R.K. Chhibber from Jammu was appointed the interim CMD. A senior ACB officer tells