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Jammu, Oct 8: Taking a dig at politicians who are making hue and cry over KAS mains results, aspirants from Doda, Kishtwar, Ramban, Rajouri, Poonch, Kathua and Udhampur districts have said they (politicians) were ‘communalizing’ the results by targeting a particular language.
 At a meeting held at Jammu University today, Mains qualifiers from Jammu region reacted strongly to the statements of some political leaders ‘who are racking up the issue with certain malafide intentions’. “We always accepted the results and did not questioned the credibility of the commission even when 87 candidates were selected alone from Jammu district for the 2001 batch”, an aspirant of Rajouri district said.
 He said politicians of Jammu district had never considered the people of Doda, Kishtwar, Ramban, Rajouri, Poonch and Udhampur as the part of Jammu province. “If they would have considered us as their part, the situation would have been different”, he said adding “If candidates of Jammu district have missed this time to make it to the interview but remaining province is satisfied on the results”.
 He said these leaders have hurt the Mains qualifiers of Jammu who had worked hard and qualified the examination.
 Observing that the objections were actually a direct attack on a particular language, another KAS aspirant of Doda said these leaders were actually targeting Urdu and not PSC and in this way they are exposing themselves. “We have worked hard in Urdu and qualified the examination and this is not a language of any particular community”, he said reminding these leaders that when 29 candidates of Dogri subject were selected in the final list of 2004 batch, no one had reacted the way these people are doing this time. “We never wanted to target any particular subject by labeling it with a particular community but some people are targeting Urdu with malafide intentions, otherwise they have no suspicions about the   result”, he added.
 Warning these leaders not to indulge in communal politics over a subject, an aspirant of Kishtwar district said “I being a Hindu have qualified KAS mains in Urdu and if Jammu politicians did not digest our affiliation with Jammu province, we have no problem to declare ourselves as part of Kashmir because that is also part of the state and the conclusion one can draw is that the leaders having a communal mindset do not consider   the valley as its part”. He added that these politicians should abstain from embarking on narrow politics and should boost the morale of those who qualified the Mains. “How they are telling that 76 percent aspirants of Kashmir have been selected. This is true that 76 percent are selected from the districts outside Jammu district”, an aspirant of Surankote Poonch said adding that when among the total 113 candidates selected for Naib Tehsildar, 100 were belonging to Jammu, there was no cry from Kashmir even though Urdu knowledge was compulsory for the same.
 These aspirants after holding a meeting appealed such politicians   to stop anti-Urdu propaganda and treat this language as Indian language. They also appealed Public Service Commission not to   succumb to the pressure of the ‘communal politics’.

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