Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Aug 5: Urging the Election Commission (EC), State Chief Secretary and the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) to take cognisance of alleged backdoor appointments ahead of Assembly elections later this year, People’s Democratic Party (PDP) today asked the Government to come clean on the issue.
The PDP demanded that the EC and State CEO take immediate cognisance of the reports of mass backdoor appointments being made by the Coalition Government ahead of Assembly elections and use their influence to stop this unholy practice immediately.
In a statement here this afternoon former Finance Minister and senior PDP leader Tariq Hameed Karra, MP, asked the State Government to come clean on the reports of backdoor and illegal appointments being made in various departments under political influence as it has started brewing unease and resentment among the educated unemployed youth.
‘Having lost ground and public support, the ruling National Conference (NC) is now resorting to its traditional practice of backdoor appointments and corrupt practices by putting even the daily-wage and casual labourer’s jobs on sale,’ Mr Karra said. He said “there are reports that in violation of recruitment procedure, large-scale appointments of casual labourers and daily-rated workers are forced on various Government Departments on pick-and-choose basis and proposed engagement of around 16,000 salesmen and helpers for the new sale outlets of the Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution Department (CA&PD) is a case in point.
Mr Karra said there were reports that the officials of the CA&PD Department have been asked to issue engagement orders according to the list provided by two Ministers of the Coalition Government whose agents have already started collecting money from the aspiring youth.
‘This Government has adopted an anti-youth policy since it took over the reins of the state in 2009 and, unfortunately, it is still continuing with that,’ he said and added that the NC-Congress Coalition Government is snatching rights of the youth who deserve engagement on the basis of merit and suitability.
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