Gehlot terms RSSSB irregularities chronic evil, asks BJP to shun targetting Congress

The row over “corruption and irregularities” in the Rajasthan State Staff Selection Board (RSSSB) refused to die down with former chief minister Ashok Gehlot terming it a chronic evil spanning three regimes – two of the BJP, and one of the Congress.

The Congress leader demanded that, instead of targetting political rivals, the government should hold a thorough probe into all the exams conducted by RSSSB from 2018 to 2025 and all guilty should be punished, irrespective of their support or allegiance to the BJP or the Congress.

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He expressed serious concern over the revelations made by the Rajasthan SoG in three recruitment examinations conducted by RSSSB in 2018-2019 with the arrest of five accused on Tuesday. Gehlot wrote on ‘X’ Twitter on Thursday that the nefarious game of OMR sheet rigging and related activities in RSSSB started way back in 2018 under the then BJP regime that have been continued under the incumbent BJP Government”.

This indeed is a matter of concern that those (employees) who had committed sinful irregularities in 2018-19 were still posted and active in the board post 2 years under present rule until 2025, Gehlot said.

This raises serious questions and underlines the need of that sequence of events pertaining to the entire stretch of 9 year needed thorough, free and fair scrutiny and deep probe to bring to book all those indulged in the misdeeds, he added.

However, it appears that the incumbent BJP government, instead of ensuring justice in rigging of OMR sheets and other criminal means, is making the paper leaks a political plank to prove tainted all the exams of the period of the Congress regime. This is evident from the fact that the ruling dispensation is indulging in branding as tainted those examinations that were conducted during the Congress rule, Gehlot noted.

This misled people, contrary to the ground reality, the senior Congress leader said, adding, “The fact is that under its regime the Congress led government had taken all necessary and stern measures against the evil of paper leak. Our government had made the most stringent law, the first in the country, to make provisions for punishment with life imprisonment for guilty ones and perpetrators, bulldozing of their properties and heavy penalties up to Rs 10 crore. We had arrested 250 culprits, Even an RPSC member was arrested – for the first time in the country. The properties of many of the guilty were bulldozed. Besides this all necessary actions were taken to safe-guard interests of unemployed youths.