Naidu demands cancellation of Village Secretariat exams

Vijayawada: Former Chief Minister and TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu addressed a letter to Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on Sunday, explaining the importance of good administration. He pointed to the failure on the part of the government to prevent leakage of question paper in the Village Secretariat examinations.

In the letter, Naidu demanded that the Chief Minister cancel the Village Secretariat examinations immediately and conduct them again with transparency. He recalled that the Ministers concerned in some State had resigned owning moral responsibility when question papers of various examinations leaked.

He also said that Minister for Panchayat Raj or Chief Minister must take responsibility for question paper leakage and resign. He said a total of 19 lakh candidates attended the examinations and all of them were worried about the paper leakage. The former Chief Minister also explained the importance of good governance and difficulties in the implementation.

The government, he said, had been focusing its attention on politics of revenge. The people have been facing difficulties for the last four months due to lack of good administration arising out of inexperience, foolishness, partiality and political revenge attitude on the part of the Chief Minister. The government should run the administration transparently.

The question paper leakage had damaged not only the prestige of Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission but also the Andhra Pradesh State. The exams were held for several lakhs of posts in the past but never question paper leakage haad happened as was the case with the Village Secretariat exams at present.

Naidu said that each job was sold for Rs 4 lakh and the news is being published with evidence in various media forums. He wondered as to how some family members could get top marks. The candidates who attended the exam sincerely did not get certain information from the call centre to get clarity on the ongoing process.

Even the candidates, who got top marks in the key, could get nominal marks in the result.He pointed out that MP P Vijayasai Reddy also said Village Secretariat posts and village volunteers' posts were given to YSR Congress party workers. He demanded that the government book criminal cases against those guilty of leaking question papers.