Congress alleges government’s assurance to PSAN just eyewash

Dimapur, July 4 (EMN): The Congress party today alleged that the assurance by the government to the agitating PSAN members to look into the various illegal and irregular appointments in government department as just a ploy to buy time and wear off the agitation.
” Going by the past instances, the written assurance of the Chief Secretary to the agitating members of PSAN is just a ploy to buy time and wear off the agitation. The NPF government that does not even hesitate to indulge in treacherous act of betraying the NBCC brokered Tripartite Agreement with JCC during the recent ULB crisis cannot be trusted to honour its word/assurances with other organizations.” stated a press release by the media cell of the party on Tuesday.
They also lambasted the state government for not being able to take any action and “miserably” failing to implement in “letter and spirit” its Office Memorandum of June 6, 2016 that had banned such illegal and irregular appointments like ad-hoc, casual, temporary and work-charged appointments.
It further added that ” It is a sad reality that thousands of our students and well qualified youths have been deprived of a fair chance to gain rightful employment and many of the less deserving whose only merit was connection to powers that be, have been taking all the cake and eating it too. It is time, the youths and the public gear up to assert their rights and claim their due or else the NPF government that has become immune to the plight of the people will never wake up from their self induced slumber.”
It also took a jibe at the chief minister for the appointment of his son to the post of Advisor to CM “while many of his party legislators are without any portfolio.”
“Therefore, when backdoor appointment can be made for the post of Advisor to CM by a father for his son without dissenting voices from any corners, what stops the government form pursuing backdoor appointments to hundreds and thousands of lower level post that are being filled regularly despite the official order banning the same,” it added.
It further stated that as long as “nepotism is patronised by the Chief Minister himself, nothing will change on ground and our young generations can only stare at the bleak future.”