Surjewala alleges irregularities in assistant prof recruitment
Senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP Randeep Singh Surjewala has levelled serious allegations of irregularities against the Haryana Public Service Commission (HPSC) in the recruitment process for the posts of assistant professor.
Addressing a press conference in the Congress Bhawan here today, Surjewala shared documents claiming that these proved the allegations being made by him.
He demanded immediate dissolution of the HPSC describing it as ‘Hera Pheri Service Commission’ and also termed the BJP as ‘Bharti Jalsaji Party’. Surjewala alleged the state government has played with the future of thousands of aspirants.
While pointing to the irregularities in the recruitment of assistant professors across 24 categories as proof, the Congress MP said that the Nayab Singh Saini government has been openly complicit in spoiling the careers of Haryana’s youth.
He also pointed fingers at the Chief Minister and HPSC officials for orchestrating a deliberate effort to benefit select candidates, while ignoring the lakhs of eligible applicants who have waited for these recruitments since 2019.
Demanding the immediate dissolution of HPSC, Surjewala also called for re-conducting all assistant professors’ recruitment exams in a transparent manner and a judicial investigation into the entire matter.
Highlighting specific incidents, Surjewala pointed to the repeated discovery of broken seals on question papers. He stated that envelopes of the political science paper held on May 29 had a broken seal. Similarly, the Hindi paper conducted on June 1 also had broken seals on six envelopes. He said as many as 27 questions in the paper were completely incorrect.
Despite this, HPSC Chairman Alok Verma issued a written statement on May 30 claiming the seal had merely broken during packing and everything else was in order. However, just three days later — on June 3 — the paper was cancelled, contradicting HPSC’s own justification and offering clear evidence of wrongdoing.
He alleged that 26 questions in the geography paper (June 8) were copied word-for-word from the Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) paper. Besides, six additional questions were partially copied.
Surjewala raised a serious question on the role of HPSC Chairman Alok Verma who he said was brought from Bihar and is now responsible for copying 32 questions from Bihar’s paper. He claimed this opens the door for manipulation where selected candidates are simply asked to study old question papers from Bihar for guaranteed success.
He asserted that the damage to the credibility of Haryana’s recruitment process is now irreparable unless swift and decisive action is taken.
He said that policy to give marks on basis of socio-economic basis was struck down by the Supreme Court which has now put the job of about 22,000 selected persons under the scanner. “Youth are falling prey to the political dishonesty and biased attitude of the BJP government,” he said.
Randeep alleged that ‘gundaraj’ prevails in Haryana similar to Bihar. “Similar ‘gundaraj’ prevailed in state before 2005 which was freed during 10 years of Congress government,” he said.
Chief Minister’s media adviser Praveen Attrey said that Surjewala has lost his balance after the BJP formed the government for a third time in Haryana. “The BJP government ended the ‘parchi-kharchi’ and bias in recruitment process for jobs. He cannot digest the fairness and transparency being implemented. The Congress has lost the people’s trust and the BJP’s third consecutive win clearly shows that the public has faith in the BJP government and wants employment based on merit, not favouritism."
Haryana Tribune