Monday, 27 February 2023 | PNS | DEHRADUN
Former MP says BJP Govt will lose case in court
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former Rajya Sabha member Subramanian Swamy has said that he will approach the Supreme Court if the State government does not reinstate the 228 ad hoc employees it has terminated from the Uttarakhand Vidhan Sabha. He expressed confidence that the State government will lose the case in court. Swamy said this while addressing the media in Haridwar on Sunday.
Swamy opined that the decision to terminate the services of the 228 ad hoc employees from Vidhan Sabha was incorrect and a violation of Article 14 of the constitution. Swamy said that persons appointed to posts on ad hoc basis in the Vidhan Sabha from 2001 to 2015 were regularised but those appointed similarly since 2016 were terminated. Stating that the matter had not reached the Supreme Court yet, he said that he would plan a strategy to approach the SC in this matter. However, he expressed hope that chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami will reinstate the terminated employees and regularise them in the same way that the ad hoc employees appointed from 2001 to 2015 were regularised. If this is not done, he said that he is confident that this government will lose in the court, adding that he had achieved victory in all the cases he had fought in court so far. Swamy said that he will take steps for a bright future of the 228 terminated employees and not leave the issue aside till justice is done.
It will be recalled that Swamy has recently written to the chief minister, stating that different treatment meted out to employees appointed in the same manner in one institution is not just. Some persons were retained in service even after their appointments were found to be in violation of rules while others were terminated from service for the same violations, which does not appear to be proper, he added.
