New Delhi, 18 Aug: Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Sunday termed as an \u201canti-national step\u201d the government\u2019s move of recruiting public servants through lateral entry, alleging that the reservation of SCs, STs and OBCs is being \u201copenly snatched away\u201d by such an action.
\nThe former Congress president also alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is \u201cattacking the Constitution by recruiting public servants through the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh instead of the Union Public Service Commission\u201d.
\nGandhi\u2019s attack came after it emerged that 45 specialists would soon join key posts of joint secretaries, directors and deputy secretaries in different central ministries.
\nUsually, such posts are manned by the officers of all-India services \u2014 the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Police Service (IPS) and Indian Forest Service (IFoS) \u2014 and Group A services, among others.
\n\u201cReservation of SC, ST and OBC classes is being openly snatched away by recruiting through lateral entry on important posts in various ministries of the central government,\u201d Gandhi said in a post in Hindi on X.
\n\u201cI have always said that the underprivileged are not represented in all the country\u2019s top posts, including the top bureaucracy. Instead of improving it, they are being pushed further away from the top posts through lateral entry,\u201d he said.
\n\u201cThis is a robbery of the rights of talented youth preparing for UPSC and an attack on the concept of social justice including reservation for the underprivileged,\u201d he alleged.
\nThe SEBI is a vivid example of what representatives of a few corporates will do by sitting on decisive government posts, where for the first time a person from the private sector was made the chairperson, Gandhi said in an apparent reference to the conflicts of interest allegations against SEBI chairperson Madhabi Buch.
\nThe INDIA bloc will strongly oppose this \u201canti-national step\u201d that hurts both the administrative structure and social justice, Gandhi said. (PTI)
\n\u201cPrivatisation of the IAS is Modi\u2019s guarantee for ending reservation,\u201d he said. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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