Friday, 26 August 2022, | PNS | Dehradun
A delegation of Uttarakhand Congress met the Governor Lieutenant General (retd) Gurmit Singh and demanded that either Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) or an inquiry by a sitting judge of High Court should be ordered in the recruitment scams in different departments and the examinations of Uttarakhand Subordinate Services Selection Commission (UKSSSC). The delegation also demanded that the pending payments of the women self help groups supplying Take Home Ration (THR) to the Anganwadi Kendra should be released.
The delegation led by the Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) president Karan Mahara submitted a memorandum to the governor. In the memorandum the party leaders said that the double engine government of BJP has failed to prevent corruption in the State. The Congress leaders said a sum of Rs 15 lakh were taken from the candidates for providing question papers in the VPDO recruitment examination of UKSSSC. They said that the arrest of the people associated with BJP proves that corruption prevailed in every sector during the five and half year rule of the BJP in the state. The delegation also alleged nepotism in the recruitments in the cooperative banks in the State. The delegation said that apart from VPDO examinations, the examinations of Judicial assistant, village panchayat secretary, forest guard, secretariat guards, LT recruitment, village development officers and others have come under cloud. The Congress leaders claimed that those arrested so far in the UKSSSC scam are only the pawns and only a high level inquiry would be able to apprehend the real culprits.
The delegation included former PCC presidents Pritam Singh, Ganesh Godiyal, MLA Furkan Ahmed, vice president Surya Kant Dhasmana, Garima Dasauni, P K Agarwal, former MLA Rajkumar, Godavari Thapli and others.
