GUWAHATI: The Leader of Opposition, Debabrata Saikia criticised the Assam government over the recruitment process to various state departments. He also demanded an enquiry by a sitting judge of the Gauhati High Court into all recruitments made in the last four-and-half years.
Debabrata Saikia stated that the BJP is operating a new syndicate involving recruitment to various departments of the state Government. The Congress Leader said that adherence to a particular ideology or payment of bribes to specific middlemen was the means to secure jobs during the tenure of the incumbent state Government.
Regarding the SI recruitment scandal, he said that a few middlemen such as Saroj Sarma have been arrested along with a couple of former and serving police officers, but the police have been unable to muster the courage even to question other suspects because the latter enjoy political protection. He said that it is clear that the recruitment scam is all-pervasive and has been going on quite some time, because admit cards of recruitment examinations pertaining to other governments such as the Irrigation Department have been seized from Saroj Sarma and other middlemen.
