Dimapur, August 30: The youth wing of the Naga People’s Front (NPF) has claimed that it has “taken up measures in various departments also, to check unauthorized appointments without government approvals.”
The group also claimed to uphold its election manifesto of ensuring “good governance and corruption free” and was “keeping strict vigilance over the various activities of the government.”
The youth wing of the NPF issued a rejoinder to a statement stated to have been made by a unit the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of Pughoboto, and published in the local media.
The media cell of the NPF central youth wing issued the statement on Tuesday.The NPF’s statement claimed: “While appreciating the BJP Mandal Pughoboto division for their seriousness on the issue against illegal appointments without government approval, the central youth wing would like to state that, it has taken up measures in various departments also, to check unauthorized appointments without government approvals where it seeks support and co-operation from its coalition partner and not to be taken away by some vested interested individual.”
The NPF also claimed to uphold its election manifesto of ensuring “good governance and corruption free”, the wing has been “keeping strict vigilance over the various activities of the government” and “therefore, it acts on its own and not under the pressure of any individual/organization(s).”
On the matter of illegal appointments in the Health & Family Welfare department, the central youth wing claimed that it had “received various complaints from numerous applicants.” The complainants had stated that appointments were being made in the directorate of Health & Family Welfare department without the approval from the competent authorities, the NPF youth asserted.
This “compelled” the central youth wing to take initiative to specifically interfere into this department, it asserted.
“It is crystal clear that the appointments were done illegally without any government approval. It is also confirmed that there was no vacancy against those appointments made by few corrupted officers. Hence the illegal appointments made in the Health & Family Welfare department by those corrupted officers concern who were in the verge of retirement are all fictitious and bogus,” the NPF stated.
“Many of those illegal appointees have been victimized by the corrupted officers concern for appointing them instead of helping them. This illegal appointments were made without the approval of the concern minister and commissioner and secretary (for short government), who has the only authority to appoint against resultant vacant / sanction post which are outside the purview of the NPSC and in tune with the government standing order.”
The NPF remarked that “our BJP Mandal friends could not distinguish between directorate and government. It cannot be denied that the concern corrupt officer has done all this illegal appointments with an ulterior motive and vested interest which in fact, has jeopardized the career of those innocent people.”
