NPCC takes on govt over backdoor appts

Taking note of the recent agitation by members of Public Service Aspirants of Nagaland against backdoor appointments, Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee has criticized the government for making hollow assurances time and again.

NPCC media cell said going by the past instances, the written assurance of the chief secretary to the agitating members of PSAN was just a ploy to buy time and wear off the agitation. 

It said 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.” NPCC pointed out that the government through the P&AR department had brought out an Office Memorandum dated June 6, 2016 banning all ad-hoc/casual/temporary/work-charged appointments. However, it said the state government miserably failed to implement its order in letter and spirit.

NPCC alleged that only those who has connections to power, have been taking all the cake and eating it too, depriving  deserving candidates. 

NPCC said that unless youths and the public gear up to assert their rights and claim their due, the NPF government that has become immune to the plight of the people would never wake up from their self induced slumber. In this regard, NPCC said: “What more can the people expect from the government where the chief minister appoints his unmandated son to the post of advisor to CM with cabinet status while many of his party legislators are without any portfolio.” 

It said that “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.

NPCC said as long as nepotism is patronized by chief minister himself, nothing will change on ground and that the young generations can only stare at the bleak future.  While expressing solidarity with students/youngsters fighting against backdoor appointments, NPCC said it was a grim reminder to the youngsters on agitation path that “they will only keep getting empty and false assurances whenever they converge to make their voices heard unless the NPF-BJP government is forced to start changes from the top.”