GUWAHATI: United People’s Party Liberal (UPPL) has lodged an FIR at Kokrajhar police station against alleged illegal appointments in the transport department of the erstwhile Bodo People’s Front-ruled Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) administration.
Confirming the move, UPPL general secretary, Maoti Brahma Hazowary told The Shillong Times on Monday that the party had relevant documents to claim that at least 48 persons were illegally appointed in the transport department during the 17-year-old term of the council, which ended on April 27, 2020.
“There would be many more illegal appointments which were made without any advertisement or interview. We have already appealed to the Governor for a CBI probe into the job scam in not only the transport department but in other departments such as forest, PWD, social welfare, etc,” Hazowary said.
In the FIR filed on Sunday, the party mentioned that “eight candidates have been illegally been appointed as assistant enforcement inspectors in the transport department without any official recommendation by the competent Central Selection Board (CSB).”
“Twenty one enforcement checkers have been illegally been appointed in the same department, without any interview or advertisements. Moreover, illegal appointments on fixed pay and regular pay basis have been made without the conduct of any interview in several departments of Bodoland Territorial Council,” the party alleged in the FIR.
It may be noted that Governor’s rule was imposed in Bodoland Territorial Area Districts towards the end of April, in the wake of the State Election Commission not being able to hold polls to the council owing to the lockdown.
IANS