NEW DELHI / HARYANA:
Amid soaring unemployment and collapsing recruitment systems in Haryana, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has called out the BJP government for running a deliberate, state-wide “naukri chori” regime that is pushing an entire generation into uncertainty. Speaking in Chandigarh, AAP National Media Incharge Anurag Dhanda said the Haryana government is inflating job figures, sabotaging recruitment exams, sidelining reserved categories, and hiding Common Entrance Test (CET) results, even as more than three thousand teaching posts lie vacant and only a fraction of promised jobs have actually materialised.
Addressing a press conference, AAP National Media Incharge Anurag Dhanda stated, “The BJP government in Haryana has completely paralysed the state’s job mechanism. While the Punjab government has provided over 60,000 government jobs to young people since 2022 without a single recruitment getting stuck in court or a single paper leak, Haryana has pushed its youth into darkness.”
Explaining the gap between claims and reality, Anurag Dhanda said, “The Haryana government claims it has provided around two lakh jobs, but in reality only 1,20,000 positions were actually filled. Out of these, nearly 25,000 candidates moved from Group D to Group C, leaving those positions vacant again.”
“This proves the government is merely presenting showy numbers and has no intention of genuinely providing employment to the youth. Apart from this, around twenty to 25,000 posts across various departments are still stuck in court cases. In these eleven years, nearly 50,000 employees retired, yet the graph of new recruitments kept falling and ultimately only twenty to twenty-five thousand young people actually got jobs,” he revealed.
Citing the recent Assistant Professor (English) recruitment as an example, Anurag Dhanda continued, “There were supposed to be 613 appointments, yet only 151 candidates were declared passed in the written exam. Out of 301 reserved category posts, only 17 candidates were passed. These are the same young people from Haryana who are NET–JRF toppers, gold medallists and working in prestigious institutions across the country, but the Haryana Public Service Commission did not even award them 35% marks in the state exam.”
He emphasised that this raises serious questions on both the examination system and the intent of the government. More than three thousand posts in colleges and universities lie vacant, yet the government releases recruitment notifications after long delays and then leaves more than half the posts unfilled.
Highlighting the uncertainty imposed on young people, the AAP Media Incharge added, “The government has created such a labyrinth in recruitment that qualified youth cannot even know whether they will get a job after passing the exam. In several major recruitments, the government deliberately leaves loopholes so that the process gets stuck in court and appointments are delayed for months or years. This is injustice to the youth of the entire state.”
He pointed out that even more worrying is the government now allowing candidates from other states to apply without domicile and removing Haryana General Knowledge from examinations, making it clear that Haryana’s youth are being pushed back while outside candidates are being favoured.
Anurag Dhanda said, “The BJP government is hiding the data of qualifying candidates for the CET Group C exam because once the truth comes out, their entire game of ‘naukri chori’ will be exposed. I challenge the government: if it is honest, it should reveal how many candidates have cleared the CET Group C mains examination. Why is this government refusing to disclose the numbers? It is because the intent of the BJP government is tainted. I want to warn Haryana CM Nayab Singh that the youth of Haryana will now stand up for their rights and will give a strong response to this corrupt employment system.”
