Youth Congress workers hold protest in Panchkula against HPSC
Youth Congress workers, led by Rohtak MP Deepender Hooda and Ambala MP Varun Chaudhary, held a protest march in Panchkula on Tuesday against the Haryana Public Service Commission (HPSC). They alleged that the commission recruited candidates from outside the state and filled fewer seats than advertised.
The march was stopped near the HPSC office. When Hooda and other workers attempted to climb barricades, police used water cannons for about 45 minutes. They were taken into preventive custody and later released.
Hooda said, “For the past 12 years, the BJP government has been defrauding the youth of Haryana in the name of recruitment. The HPSC has become a hub of recruitment scams, paper leaks, bribery, and giving jobs to people from outside Haryana. The BJP government is ignoring the youth of the state in the recruitment process and giving priority to non-Haryana candidates.”
He further said, “Most of the posts in Haryana are either vacant or filled with outsiders. Such injustice is not happening anywhere else in the country.” He claimed that the Congress party had also excluded major development projects like the International Airport, the Rail Coach Factory, the Defense University in Gurugram, and the national-level health institution in Jhajjar. He asked, “If these projects were implemented in Haryana, millions of local youth would have found jobs. In such a situation, where would the youth of Haryana go?” He demanded that the HPSC Chairman be immediately removed and a Haryana resident be appointed. He said, “The HPSC should be dissolved, all recruitment scams should be investigated without any discrimination, and the culprits should be prosecuted. All vacant HPSC posts should be re-advertised.”
Chaudhary said, “The HPSC does not consider Haryana’s youth suitable for government jobs, but the reality is that the current Chief Minister does not have the best interests of the people of Haryana in mind.”
