Congress leader Rahul Gandhi launched a scathing attack on the Narendra Modi government after the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) advertised 45 posts -- 10 of joint secretaries and 35 of directors/deputy secretaries -- to be filled through the lateral entry mode on contract basis. Rahul Gandhi who is also the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Sunday termed it as an ”anti-national step”, alleging that the reservation of SCs, STs and OBCs is being ”openly snatched away” by such an action.
Rahul Gandhi also alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is ”attacking the Constitution by recruiting public servants through the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh instead of the Union Public Service Commission”. Gandhi said in a post in Hindi on X.”I have always said that the underprivileged are not represented in all the country’s top posts, including the top bureaucracy. Instead of improving it, they are being pushed further away from the top posts through lateral entry,” he said.”This is a robbery of the rights of talented youth preparing for UPSC and an attack on the concept of social justice including reservation for the underprivileged,” he alleged.”Reservation of SC, ST and OBC classes is being openly snatched away by recruiting through lateral entry on important posts in various ministries of the central government,” Privatisation of the IAS is Modi’s guarantee for ending reservation,” he said. The SEBI is a vivid example of what representatives of a few corporates will do by sitting on decisive government posts, where for the first time a person from the private sector was made the chairperson, Gandhi said in an apparent reference to the conflicts of interest allegations against SEBI chairperson Madhabi Buch.The INDIA bloc will strongly oppose this ”anti-national step” that hurts both the administrative structure and social justice, Gandhi said.”
नरेंद्र मोदी संघ लोक सेवा आयोग की जगह ‘राष्ट्रीय स्वयं सेवक संघ’ के ज़रिए लोकसेवकों की भर्ती कर संविधान पर हमला कर रहे हैं।केंद्र सरकार के विभिन्न मंत्रालयों में महत्वपूर्ण पदों पर लेटरल एंट्री के ज़रिए भर्ती कर खुलेआम SC, ST और OBC वर्ग का आरक्षण छीना जा रहा है।
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Meanwhile,the Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party have slammed the government's move seeking applications for lateral entry into the bureaucracy, terming it as the BJP's "conspiracy" to appoint its ideological allies to high posts through the back door SP chief Akhilesh Yadav also warned of an agitation on this issue from October 2. In a post on 'X', Yadav said, "Time has come to launch a nationwide movement against the conspiracy of the BJP to appoint its ideological allies to high government posts in UPSC through the back door." "This method will close the way for today's officers as well as the youth to reach higher posts in the present and future. Common people will be limited to clerks and peons only. In fact, the whole trick is to snatch reservation and their rights from PDA (backward, Dalit and minorities)," the former Uttar Pradesh chief minister charged.
"Now that BJP has come to know that PDAs across the country have woken up against the BJP's trick to abolish the Constitution, it wants to deny reservation on some other pretext by making direct recruitment to such posts. The BJP government should immediately withdraw it because it is also not in national interest. The BJP wants to get arbitrary work done by keeping officers of its party ideology in the government," he charged. He asserted that people who become officers by the grace of the government can never be impartial and that the integrity of such people will also always be questioned. "Officers and youth across the country are requested that if the BJP government does not withdraw it, then stand shoulder to shoulder with us in starting a new movement from October 2," he said. "Such thinking depends on the exploitation of others, whereas our 'socialist thinking' is for the nourishment and welfare of the poor, farmers, labourers, employed, common people doing their own small work-business-shop. This is a big conspiracy against the country," he claimed.
BSP chief Mayawati also flayed the decision, saying employees working on lower posts will be deprived of the benefit of promotion.
"Along with this, if the people of SC, ST and OBC categories are not given appointment in proportion to their quota in these government appointments, then it will be a direct violation of the Constitution," she said. "Filling these high posts with direct appointments without making any rules will be the arbitrariness of the BJP government, which will be illegal and unconstitutional," she said.
*With PTI inputs
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