RAJ KUMAR
Ranchi, March 14: The issue of recruitment policy rocked the Jharkhand Assembly today again as the BJP did not allow the question hour to run demanding Chief Minister Hemant Soren to clear his stand on the new policy, okayed by the State cabinet.
As the house came into the motion at 11am, the BJP MLAs went into the well and started raising slogan ‘60-40 Nai Chalto’ and continued doing so till Speaker Rabindranath Mahto adjourned the proceedings at 11.30am till 12.30pm.
Before the house was adjourned the speaker requested the BJP legislators to continue the question hour but the latter did not budge.
The BJP MLAs had already given indication of disrupting the proceedings as they protested outside the assembly against the recruitment policy before the beginning of the session. Wearing T-shirts carrying the message ‘60-40 Nai Chalto..1932 Ki Bhelo (60-40 will not be acceptable, what happened to 1932)’ they were noticed sitting at the assembly gate.
MLA Manish Jaiswal said that the government’s policy regarding the recruitment is not clear. According to him, the state government neither has a policy nor intention to provide jobs.
Notably, the State government announced a recruitment policy after a cabinet meeting. The policy does not give any privilege to locals. Jaiswal said the government is trying to bring recruitment policy through the back door. “When the session is going on, this policy should have been brought in the house first before taking a final decision on it in the cabinet,” Jaiswal said.
