‘Jobs only for outsiders’: Hooda continues attack on BJP govt

Chandigarh: Former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said on Tuesday claimed the BJP govt in Haryana is betraying unemployed youth as it is giving state govt jobs to people from outside the state. "The BJP, which came to power promising 2 lakh permanent jobs and regularising the employees of the Kaushal Nigam (Skill Development Corporation), is continuously distributing Haryana's jobs to non-Haryanvis. The BJP was not able to conduct a single major recruitment drive in 1 year, and in the few small recruitment drives that were conducted, more people from outside Haryana were recruited than from within the state," he stated. Hooda said every state govt created recruitment processes and rules to ensure that state jobs primarily go to local youth. "Where there is a state language other than Hindi, a language paper is mandatory, such as Marathi in Maharashtra, Tamil in Tamil Nadu, and Punjabi in Punjab," he pointed out. "Since the language of Haryana is Hindi, a separate paper based on language cannot be conducted here. But the BJP govt can learn from Rajasthan. The language of Rajasthan is also Hindi, so to give priority to local youth, a separate provision is made that 30 to 40 questions on Rajasthan GK are compulsorily asked in recruitment examinations," he added.He said Haryana is the only state among the 28 states of the country where the chairman of the Public Service Commission is brought in from outside the state. Answering questions from journalists at his residence, he spoke on the ongoing internal conflict within the BJP. "A fractured BJP is ruling in Haryana," he claimed. Giving the example of Anil Vij, he said that even BJP leaders are not being heard in this govt. "The infighting among BJP leaders from South Haryana, Faridabad and Gurugram is evident to everyone," he said. MSID: 126802970 413 |