NPP protests near Parliament in New Delhi

New Delhi, March 17: Scores of Panther activists led by Former Minister and senior NPP leader Harsh Dev Singh assembled at Jantar-Mantar in New Delhi to protest against alleged job scams in Jammu and Kashmir.
According to a statement issued by the party, spokesperson said the protesters started proceeding in groups towards the Parliament while raising slogans aganst job scams.
The protesters were whisked away by Delhi police enroute. However, about a dozen workers along with Singh managed to reach near the Parliament to lodge the protest. “the angry Panthers sought judicial inquiry into all the recruitment scams during the last few years”.
Addressing the media regarding the much publicised scam in the selection of PSIs, FAAs and JEs in the UT, Singh said UT of J&K has earned the most dubious notoriety in employment scandals during the last few years.
He said that while the govt failed to fill up the posts in various govt deptts in a fair and transparent manner, the culture of fake, backdoor and other paid appointments grew by leaps and bounds.
And whereas the recent past witnessed large scale retrenchments, of even the regularly engaged govt employees, the new UT saw the resultant vacancies being put on sale by the various recruitment bodies through blacklisted agencies, rued Harsh.
He said that it was the public outrage and fear of adverse consequences that had forced the govt to rescind the said list wherein crores had been swindled by a corrupt mafia.
The NPP leader endorsed the demand of agitating youth to disengage the APTECH co. hired for making recruitments in the UT.
The irregular selections of Firemen and drivers made in Fire services Deptt through dubious means was also highlighted umpteen times in the media but the helmsmen have chosen to push the matter under the carpet for reasons best known, said Harsh.
Alleging the commission of biggest recruitment scandal in BJP-PDP rule, Singh said that more than 4000 SPOs were engaged in 2017-18 through backdoor without following any procedure and the officers who made such appointments were rewarded with prized postings by the then BJP-PDP govt.
Former minister disclosed that hundreds of backdoor appointments were made in KVIB during the BJP-PDP govt, with a few of them reportedly rescinded, as an eyewash and a window dressing for the gullible.