{"id":65226,"date":"2026-02-21T11:39:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T11:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/sunil-sharma-slams-jk-government-over-outsourcing-of-23000-jobs-warns-of-youth-backlash\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T11:39:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T11:39:11","slug":"sunil-sharma-slams-jk-government-over-outsourcing-of-23000-jobs-warns-of-youth-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/sunil-sharma-slams-jk-government-over-outsourcing-of-23000-jobs-warns-of-youth-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunil Sharma Slams J&#038;K Government Over Outsourcing of 23,000 Jobs, Warns of Youth Backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Leader of Opposition (LoP) <strong>Sunil Sharma<\/strong> on Saturday accused the Jammu and Kashmir government of \u201cshattering the dreams of unemployed youth\u201d in the Union Territory by <strong>outsourcing around 23,000 jobs<\/strong> instead of filling them through a transparent recruitment process.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing reporters after a mega BJP joining event at <strong>Sher-i-Kashmir International Conference Centre (SKICC)<\/strong>, Sharma urged the <strong>Omar Abdullah government<\/strong> to revoke the order, warning of the \u201cwrath of the youth\u201d if it was not rolled back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Abdullah government has outsourced, sold around 23,000 jobs instead of conducting transparent recruitment. It has shattered the dreams of poor, unemployed youth. This is a huge betrayal with the youth of J&amp;K,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Citing a written reply by the government in the assembly to MLA <strong>Handwara Sajad Lone<\/strong>, Sharma noted that <strong>22,886 positions<\/strong> were outsourced in the past two years across the region.<\/p>\n<p>Sharma also alleged that the <strong>Abdullah and Mufti families<\/strong> misled people about the BJP to keep them away from the party. \u201cNow the youth and political activists are joining the BJP, which proves the party\u2019s growing acceptance in Kashmir and exposes the Abdullah family,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He further claimed, \u201cThe Abdullah family has lied, betrayed Kashmir, and spilled blood. Today, when the people of Kashmir are questioning them, it is BJP\u2019s biggest success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On PDP chief <strong>Mehbooba Mufti<\/strong> questioning the Indo-US trade deal, Sharma said she was targeting Delhi instead of holding the <strong>National Conference government<\/strong> accountable in the Union Territory. \u201cWhen Mufti should have questioned the government here for the youth of J&amp;K, she is questioning Delhi. The people had voted you to sit in opposition and hold the NC accountable,\u201d he remarked.<\/p>\n<p>Sharma accused the PDP of being \u201cfriends with the NC,\u201d revealing a \u201cdual character,\u201d and asserted, \u201cThe people of Kashmir should trust the BJP, and we will take both these families to task.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Leader of Opposition (LoP) Sunil Sharma on Saturday accused the Jammu and Kashmir government of \u201cshattering the dreams of unemployed youth\u201d in the Union Territory by outsourcing around 23,000 jobs instead of filling them through a transparent recruitment process. Addressing reporters after a mega BJP joining event at Sher-i-Kashmir International Conference Centre (SKICC), Sharma urged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-65226","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jammu","8":"category-kashmir"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}