- Wednesday, September 11, 2024
The central Indian state, which is ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of prime minister Narendra Modi, is set to go to polls on November 17.
By: Shubham Ghosh
INDIAN National Congress leader and India’s former federal minister Pradeep Jain Aditya on Tuesday (31) said if his party comes to power in Madhya Pradesh in the upcoming assembly elections, it will waive the fees charged for government job recruitment exams in the state.
The central Indian state, which is ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of prime minister Narendra Modi, is set to go to polls on November 17.
Addressing a press conference in state capital Bhopal, Jain claimed more than one crore youth in Madhya Pradesh were unemployed and only 40 lakh (four million) of them were registered with the government.
The BJP government in the state has collected more than Rs 100 crore as fees for recruitment exams from the poor job aspirants during the last 10 years, he further said.
Jain also claimed that 17,298 unemployed youth have committed suicide in the state in the last 18 years.
The Congress has decided that if it is elected to power, the fees for the government job recruitment examinations will be completely waived, Jain said.
The results of government recruitment exams, which have been withheld “deliberately”, will be announced, he said. A commission will also be set up to conduct a probe into the withheld exam results, he said.
The Congress will conduct offline exams, instead of online, for the government jobs, he added.
He also said the scams in recruitment exams, withholding of results and exam paper leak were the main reasons for unemployment in Madhya Pradesh.
The Vyapam scam, ‘patwari’ (revenue department staffers) recruitment exam scam, irregularities in the recruitment of constables, among others have tarnished the image of the state, the Congress leader claimed.
Madhya Pradesh will go to polls along with Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Telangana and Mizoram and the results will be announced on December 3.
The Congress came to power in the state after the 2018 elections but its government failed to last the full tenure after several lawmakers pulled out of the party, leaving it in a minority. The BJP returned to power soon after that and incumbent chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who had served as the chief minister between 2005 and 2018, took office again.
(With PTI inputs)
