Amritsar, October 10 – Senior Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) leader Bikram Singh Majithia today demanded the immediate scrapping of the Naib Tehsildar recruitment process and initiation of a CBI probe into the multi – crore scam.
Addressing a press conference here along with students who sat in the paper, Bikram Majithia alleged the Naib Tehsildar recruitment scam was the biggest such scam in the history of Punjab. He said the scam was on the same pattern as the Jammu and Kashmir Sub Inspector recruitment scam with 11 out of the 19 students selected in the general category belonging to one area – Moonak and Patran. He said three out of these candidates were also relatives like in the case of the J and K scam.
Asserting that a massive fraud had been committed with 70,000 candidates who had sat for the paper, Mr Majithia said chief minister Bhagwant Mann owed an explanation to the candidates as to why only persons from his area had been selected in the examination.
Stating that there was more than met the eye, Majithia said the topper in the examination – Jasvir Singh had applied for the post of sweeper in the Vidhan Sabha few months back and even failed to clear the paper for the post of Patwari as well as clerk cum data entry operator. “The same person has achieved a percentage of 84.7 per cent in the Naib Tehsildar exam paper whose difficulty was at par with UPSC exams and which also had negative marking”.
Majithia said the affected students had tried to meet the chief minister and apprise him about the scam but he did not meet them. He also questioned the haste with which the government released the result of the paper when a writ was already pending in the high court. He also questioned why the paper was also not held in Punjabi and why the promise of giving preference to youth of Punjab domicile in government jobs was not being followed.
Asserting that crores had exchanged hands, he said it was tragic that the future of the youth of the State was being sold for party funds. He said in the present dispensation nothing was safe with even institutions like the Punjab Cricket Association being plundered at hands of AAP appointed President – Gulzarinder Singh Chahal as was being disclosed by MP Harbhajan Singh.
