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Srinagar: PDP on Wednesday expressed surprise over holding of a police recruitment rally without any "prior notice" and alleged that the ruling National Conference in Jammu and Kashmir done this to favour its candidates.

"It is surprising that the recruitment was started without any prior notice, information or advertisement and it seems it is meant only for those recommended by the ruling party," the People's Democratic Party said in a statement here.

Expressing strong disapproval of the manner in which recruitment drive in Srinagar city has been launched, the PDP said "this is another brazen instance of the insincere conduct of state government."


The party said most of the people in downtown city were taken by surprise on learning that a recruitment drive has been launched in Khanyar.

"Numerous candidates could not appear as a result," the PDP said, adding, there are thousands of eligible men in Srinagar city who are academically and physically qualified to compete for constable's post.

"The government has thrown all norms and established procedures to the wind by conducting the recruitment clandestinely. This is in accordance with the tradition and character of National Conference which has revived backdoor entries into government," the Opposition PDP alleged.

It said the youth belonging to the city face acute unemployment, but the government's intentions are clear that it will not provide equal opportunities to all and will instead use it as means of "corruption, nepotism and favouritism".

The PDP said the NC has already lost all "moral and political" credibility.

"The government must ensure continuation of transparency and fairness in recruitment that had been introduced by the previous government," the party demanded.

The PDP said the government plans were not clear about the extent of recruitment. "It is necessary that it is not confined to just one constituency," it said, demanding that recruitment drive should be extended to all the Assembly constituencies and the government must announce the number of total jobs available and the criterion for their distribution and selection.

Khanyar falls in the Assembly constituency represented by state Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ali Mohammad Sagar.