JK News Today
Srinagar, August 10:
After stepping down as President of his Jammu and Kashmir People’s Movement (JKPM) Shah Faesal, an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer in detention since last year, said on his release, ” My politics ended before it could even start. But I have learnt my lesson.”
Faesal floated the party in February 2019. He resigned from the IAS in 2019 but it was not accepted by the government, which initiated disciplinary proceedings against him for his tweets posted in 2018.
There are reports that he may rejoin the service after getting release from detention. Mr. Faesal, a topper of the 2010 UPSC civil services examination, was detained at the Delhi airport on August 14, 2019, after the Centre passed two legislations to read down Article 370 of the Constitution in J&K and downgrade and bifurcate the State into Union Territories. J&K has been under Central rule since June 2018.
He continued to be under detention at the MLA Hostel in Srinagar and after being released on June 3, he had been under “house arrest” at his residence.
“I want to move on in life and do something productive. My politics ended before it could even start. But I have learnt my lesson. Some of my utterances were problematic. But not anymore,” he said in a written statement which is onof his first interactions since he was detained a year ago.
On Monday, Mr. Faesal dropped all references to the JKPM party from his Twitter handle and deleted all posts from his timeline.
“I do not want to talk about things I have no power to change. As a member of IAS I have been a stakeholder in the future of this country. I deeply value that connection. I am deeply hurt by the way I was branded as an anti-national,” he said.
“I don’t know where I will go from here. But I know that there is so much to be done in the education sector, in health, poverty alleviation, energy security, and I must not waste my life by remaining stuck in the past,” he said.
Feroze Peerzada took over at President of JKPM after Shah Faesal stepped down today.
