New Delhi: After ‘love jihad’, ‘economic jihad’, UPSC jihad and Haldiram’s jihad, Sudarshan TV has orchestrated ‘job jihad’ triggering ban Pawan Hans campaign.
Claiming that only Muslims were hired at Pawan Hans, Suresh Chavhanke, editor of the far-right Sudarshan TV On April 15, 2022, described it as “job jihad”.
After UPSC Jihad and Haldiram Jihad shitshow, Sudarshan orchestrates protests at Pawan Hans for hiring Jamia students who happen to be Muslim. They call it Job Jihad. Ragini Tiwari who led the Hindutva mob at Maujpur during Delhi riots & pelted stones can be seen in this videos.
Hindu right-wing groups are coining phrases by suffixing “jihad” to various words. Recent “Job jihad” is the bogey of a conspiracy by Muslims to secure jobs and jeopardise Hindus’ sources of livelihood.
The controversy broke out on social media a week earlier when a list showing 10 candidates – all of them Muslims from Jamia Millia Islamia University – who were selected for apprenticeship by Pawan Hans Limited was widely circulated on social media, alleging that Hindus are being denied jobs by the government enterprise.
Chavhanke called it “100% undeclared Muslim reservation at Pawan Hans.”
Extremely Shocking. Anyone will think that @PawanHansLtd has opened its franchisee in Pakistan or Else they want to turn Bharat into another Pakistan. Pawan Hans must immediately come up with an Answer. How come all selected R Muslims ?
The Wire asserts that it investigated the claim by Sudarshan and the Hindutva protestors and found it to be false.
The report elaborated that Jamia Millia Islamia started the Bachelor of Science in aeronautics course in partnership with Pawan Hans Limited. It added that the course is offered to 60 students in two batches – Avionics and Mechanical – of 30 each. The report with reference to the official document accessed by The Wire noted that this is, notably, a self-financed course with annual fees of Rs 1.3 lakhs, out of which only 30% goes to the University and the rest to Pawan Hans.
According to a candidate a total of 30 students were selected for an interview this year. Out of these 30 students, four – two Muslims and two Hindus – dropped out for personal reasons. Out of the remaining 26, a total of 10 candidates, five from each branch were selected. Later, a Muslim student who cleared the interview also opted out for personal reasons.
Shubh Solanki, one of the Hindu candidates who opted out said, “My friend Deepit Goyal and I were amongst the toppers of our batch. We opted out because of personal reasons. I am preparing for competitive exams. The selection process was completely transparent and based on merit. Being a minority institution, naturally there are more Muslim students at the University. As a Hindu student at Jamia, I have not faced any discrimination and all my friends are Muslims.”
Another candidate, Ansh Agarwal, claimed that while he had a problem with the manner of selection, it was far from a communal question.
Ansh was quoted as saying, “My problem as a student is with the criteria of selection. I want to know the weightage given to various selection parameters and if students from the branches were selected differently.”
He added, “Generally, more preference is given to modules than marks but because of COVID, we insisted that weightage be given to CGPA as well. There is 33% reservation for women but we don’t know if both branches – Avionics and Mechanical – have been clubbed or not [for this reservation]. So, the selection pattern is unclear. Due to this, students, both Muslims and Hindus, who have done well either in terms of modules or CGPA have suffered. I don’t have a basis to call it communal and I am not trying to sensationalise it like news channels, I just want to know what went wrong for those who were not selected.”
Another person, on the condition of anonymity, told that by now a total of 38 candidates have been selected by Pawan Hans and only 13 of them are Muslim.
Claiming that the controversy will only attack the employability of other candidates, both Muslim and non-Muslim, from the university, a candidate exclaimed “How can this selection be unfair when the whole panel was composed of non-Muslims and the criteria was based on merit?”
The report also informed that Pawan Hans has a similar partnership with Mumbai University. This year, a total of 15 candidates were selected from there as well and only three of them are Muslim.
