Bihar government won’t hire protesters
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The Bihar government has issued a directive stating that government jobs or government contracts won’t be given to those that stage violent protests or contain themselves in a felony act in opposition to which cost sheets are filed.
“If anyone is found to be involved in a law and order situation, staging protest, road blockade etc., and in a criminal act against which police file a chargesheet, that can be clearly mentioned in his certificate of conduct and character. These persons should be ready for grave consequences because they will not get government jobs and contracts,” mentioned a State police directive issued on January 30.
The directive was duly accepted by Director-General of Police S.K. Singhal and was circulated to the State Home Department and different senior cops.
Police verification is critical for government jobs, licence for firearms, passports, and many others.
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Tejashwi Yadav criticised the directive and accused Chief Minister Nitish Kumar of appearing like a dictator.
“In a challenge to Hitler and Mussolini, Nitish Kumar says if someone uses his democratic right against government by staging dharna-protest, he will not get a government job, which means neither will jobs be given, nor will protest be allowed. How this hapless chief minister with 40 seats is frightened!” he mentioned in a tweet, attaching the police directive.
Senior Congress chief and celebration MLC Prem Chandra Mishra, too, criticised the government’s new directive. “The new police directive of the Bihar government is, in fact, an encroachment on the democratic rights of the common citizens of the State. How can a government issue such directives to frighten and stop people from staging protests and dharnas?” he requested.
Left celebration leaders, too, attacked the State government on the difficulty.
Recently, the State government had come underneath sharp criticism for issuing the same notification that mentioned, “Offensive social media posts against the government, Ministers, MPs, legislators and State officials will be treated as a cybercrime and invite penal action.”
