Govt positions to Cong MLAs’ sons: Protesting LIP employee tries self-immolation

A 52-year-outdated Lok Insaaf Party employee who was protesting versus the appointment of the sons of two Congress MLAs to authorities careers on “compassionate grounds” attempted to self-immolate himself in entrance of deputy commissioner Varinder Kumar Sharma’s office environment on Friday.

Worry gripped the mini secretariat when Narinderpal Singh, who was carrying a can of kerosene, poured the highly flammable liquid on himself and attempted to immolate himself. Fortunately, significant law enforcement drive experienced been deployed outside the house the mini secretariat and warn cops detained him and a number of other LIP staff.

Narinderpal stated sheer hopelessness that experienced accrued following many years of struggling to get a governing administration job had led him to consider the intense action. “Both my grandfather and father are independence fighters and my son holds an Industrial Teaching Institute diploma, but even with tall claims no authorities has presented us a position.”

Clutching resumes of unemployed youths and his grandfather’s credentials, Narinderpal mentioned, “The governing administration is disregarding the families of independence fighters and appointing MLAs sons to gazette posts, which is unfair.”

The Salem Tabri resident was whisked absent to the Division Amount 5 police station. Sub-inspector Kulbir Singh, in-cost of the Kochar Marketplace law enforcement article claimed, “We deterred Narinderpal from taking this kind of an extraordinary move. We supplied him with a fresh new established of clothes and some medical therapy before releasing him.”

An insult to injuries : LIP chief

The protesting LIP leaders experienced gathered at the mini-secretariat to handover the resumes of at least 400 unemployed individuals to the deputy commissioner and protest towards the condition government’s remarkably controversial conclusion.

Randhir Singh Sibia, an LIP chief, said, “The condition government had come to electric power on the poll plank that it will provide work to the youth. Not only has the governing administration failed on the front in the very last four-and-a-50 % yrs, but to insert insult to damage it has appointed sons of Congress MLAs to superior posts to appease the explained MLAs.”

The Congress-led condition authorities experienced tweaked the guidelines to supply work opportunities to the sons of Qadian (Gurdaspur) MLA Fateh Jung Singh Bajwa and Ludhiana north MLA and previous minister Rakesh Pandey.

Bajwa’s young son Arjun Partap Singh Bajwa was presented the post of inspector in the Punjab Police, and Pandey’s middle son Bhisham Pandey was provided the work of naib tehsildar.