Only elected Govt can restore confidence of youth: Manjit Singh

Apni Party general secretary and former Minister, Manjit Singh taking new entrants into party fold at Parmandal, Samba on Wednesday.
Apni Party general secretary and former Minister, Manjit Singh taking new entrants into party fold at Parmandal, Samba on Wednesday.

Excelsior Correspondent

SAMBA, May 31: Apni Party provincial, president Jammu, and former Minister, Manjit Singh today has demanded restoration of democratic system in J&K to address growing concerns of the youth with regard to the poor employment opportunities.
Addressing a joining programme cum meeting at Parmandal, Manjit Singh said that the youth have developed a feeling of disappointment under the LG administration which has failed to advertise the vacant posts for recruitment purposes to the respective agencies.
“The recruitments which were carried out in J&K have turned out to be scams, and they are under investigation after the Government cancelled the selection process. The cancellation of the recruitment process has affected the aspirants for various jobs in the Government sector,” he said.
He further said that the aspirants who appeared in the cancelled recruitment process have become over aged and they have also lost chances to appear in other Government sector jobs.
“It is the responsibility of the Government to provide fair selection process, and punish the accused persons, but not all the aspirants who had no fault,” he said. He took on the administration for playing with the future of the educated youth in J&K.
He said that J&K needs an elected Government which can work as per the aspiration of the educated and unemployed youth with regard to development, providing ample employment opportunities both in public, and private sectors, protecting their right to job, and education.
Expressing concern over the growing concerns of the unemployed youth, he said that the Assembly elections should be held as early as possible with the restoration of Statehood to J&K.
“The delay in restoring the democratically elected process will further widen the gap between the people and the Government. Therefore, the elected Government must restore lost confidence of the general masses, particularly youth and provide equal opportunity to be represented through their elected MLAs in the assembly,” he said.
Meanwhile, over a dozen youth from Parmandal joined the Apni Party who endorsed the party’s policy and agenda of development, peace and prosperity.