Congress leaders meet Haryana Governor, seek probe into job scam

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 8

A meeting of the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) was today held under former CM and Leader of Opposition Bhupinder Singh Hooda where it was decided that they would raise the HPSC scam, shortage of DAP and urea, law and order situation, interference in university recruitments, vacant posts of different departments and inflation in the upcoming Assembly session.

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“We will bring adjournment motion on waterlogging and appointment of nambardars,” he said. He said withdrawal of cases against farmers and compensation and jobs to the families of those who died during the agitation would also be raised once again in the House.

Addressing a press conference after the CLP meeting, Hooda demanded an investigation into the recruitment scam under the supervision of a sitting High Court judge.

“Only an official of the rank of the Deputy Secretary of the HPSC cannot carry out such a huge recruitment scam. The recruitment mafia has sold jobs. But only the salesman has been caught. The owner is yet to be nabbed,” Hooda said.

In the evening, Congress MLAs also submitted a memorandum to the Governor and demanded a high-level inquiry into the matter.

The memorandum stated that apart from the recruitment scam, HCS officers selected in 2004 were voluntarily chosen and appointed in 2016, despite various irregularities. These appointments were made in disregard of the inquiry report of the Vigilance Department and this too should be thoroughly investigated, it added.

Hooda also expressed concern over the state’s health system in view of the threat of a possible third wave of Covid. He said 70 per cent posts of specialist doctors in state hospitals and about 10,000 posts in the health department were vacant. “About 40,000 posts are lying vacant in the education department and this is the reason why Haryana consistently tops the country in unemployment. High unemployment rate has led to an increase in the crime in the state,” he said.