CPI(M) chief and Thiruvananthapuram Mayor Arya Rajendran finds herself in one more controversy with a letter purportedly written by her surfacing, through which she asks the occasion for a listing of employees to be appointed to short-term posts in authorities workplaces.
Whereas Rajendran has denied writing the letter, which appears to be on her official pad, the BJP seized on the matter. For the reason that CPI(M) got here to energy in 2016, it has confronted accusations of offering occasion employees backdoor entry into authorities jobs, which have been regularised later.
The BJP requested Rajendran to take up the matter with the police cyber cell and search a probe, if the letter was fabricated.
The letter, which first surfaced within the native media, was purportedly written by Rajendran to CPI(M) district secretary Anavoor Nagappan on November 1, looking for a listing of occasion employees for 295 short-term posts in city main well being centres of the Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Company – together with one for a public well being knowledgeable, 74 posts for docs, 66 for employees nurses and 64 for pharmacists.
Denying sending such a letter, Rajendran stated: “I used to be not in Thiruvananthapuram on the date talked about within the alleged letter. The occasion will look into it.”
Nagappan, by the way, was much less categorical. “I can’t say that the letter is faux, I haven’t seen it,” the CPI(M) district secretary stated. “The difficulty could be very critical.”
BJP state president Okay Surendran demanded that the company governing council be dissolved in view of the letter, and that Rajendran should give up. “Is it the position of the CPI(M) district secretary to fill jobs in an organization? Vacancies ought to have been reported to the employment trade. This job racket of the CPI(M) is a problem to the individuals and the lakhs of jobless youths of the state. That is nepotism and violation of the oath of workplace.”
Celebrated because the youngest Mayor of the nation when she took over in 2020 on the age of 21, Rajendran has since run right into a sequence of controversies. The primary of those was her announcement of sports activities groups of scholars primarily based on their caste. She stated it was to make sure satisfactory illustration, however the protests that adopted pressured the CPI(M) district management to intervene and the choice was withdrawn.
Then, in September, Rajendran suspended seven everlasting staff and terminated the companies of 4 short-term staffers of the company after they threw away their Onam meals in protest in opposition to not being allowed time to participate within the pageant celebrations. They belonged to the CPI(M)’s personal commerce union, CITU.
Rajendran’s motion drew flak on social media, in addition to occasion colleagues like CPI(M) state secretary M V Govindan. CITU sought the staffers’ reinstatement, and Rajendran was pressured to conform.
Final month, Rajendran once more landed the CPI(M) in a spot when the Thiruvananthapuram company allowed a personal resort to make use of a portion of a significant highway within the metropolis, falling below the state PWD, for parking. On the intervention of the federal government, the company later cancelled the settlement.
The newest controversy has the potential to snowball for the ruling CPI(M) given the demand for presidency jobs. In Kerala, 37 lakh individuals, together with professionals, are at present registered in employment exchanges, and the federal government is required to first fill short-term posts from their rolls.