‘They have fundamental right of expression’
Srinagar: President Doctors Association of Kashmir (DAK) Dr Nisar ul Hassan said that government employees as citizens have fundamental right of speech and expression towards the illegalities which are being committed against the society. “They have inherent right to sensitize and aware the general masses about the insidious machinations of the powers that be,” Dr Hassan said in a statement issued to KNS.
He said: “Government employee is not a slave of government and government cannot act like a master to doctor his/her emotions and sentiments. It is dictatorial and authoritative to punish an employee for his/her ideology with which he/she is brought up. It is undemocratic and illegal if his/her dissent is criminalized.”
Dr Hassan observed: “Government employee has inalienable right to raise issues of public concern. He/she is bound by his/her conscience to rise against tyranny and tyrants. It is vindictive on part of government to subject an employee to unleashed reign of subjugation and terror if he/she as a conscious citizen raises his/her voice against legitimate grievances.” The DAK president remarked that the government employees cannot be timid and surrender to subjugation but have to be conscious of their responsibility. “Government employees represent pain of their fellow citizens and have an obligation to relieve them from miseries and sufferings.”