: BJP maintains silence on Karnatakas PSI scam #IndiaNEWS #India Hyderabad: For the last few months, as the Bharatiya Janata Party’s national and State leaders, right from national president JP Nadda

BJP maintains silence on Karnatakas PSI scam #IndiaNEWS #India
Hyderabad: For the last few months, as the Bharatiya Janata Party’s national and State leaders, right from national president JP Nadda to State president Bandi Sanjay Kumar, repeatedly harp on alleged corruption in Telangana, what they have conveniently chosen to remain silent on is the political storm that large-scale corruption in the Police Sub Inspector (PSI) recruitment drive has unleashed in the BJP-ruled Karnataka.
The scam has been so huge that apart from the rare instance of an Additional Director General of Police being arrested, there have been arrests of a BJP women’s unit leader, videos that directly link a BJP MLA to the scam and several other reports that indicate the involvement of BJP leaders and even ministers. And the scam is still raging on.
The ADGP, Amrit Paul, was the first in Karnataka to be arrested while in service, while nearly 70 others, ranging from deputy superintendents of police, inspectors and other police personnel were arrested. Those arrested also include BJP leader Divya Hagaragi, who owned the Jnana Jyothi English Medium School in Kalaburagi, a Congress block president and a Congress MLA’s gunman, and even toppers in the recruitment exam, which a CID investigation revealed was rigged on a large scale, with the staff and headmaster of Hagaragi’s school, an exam centre, found to have ticked the answer sheets on behalf of candidates.
Just three days ago, a new video of a retired police constable implicating BJP MLA Basavaraj Dadesugur, a staunch supporter of former chief minister BS Yediyurappa, came out, with strong enough indications of the legislator taking Rs. 15 lakh in exchange for a Sub-inspector post for the retired cop’s son.
The scam, which is plunging the BJP’s Karnataka unit into further depths of shame each day, actually surfaced in October last year, when examinations for recruitment of police sub-inspectors were held. The results saw 545 candidates qualifying from among 54,287 candidates who wrote the exam. CID investigations revealed that several candidates used fraudulent means to score well in the examination. Kalaburagi district turned out to be the epicentre of the scam, as it was the exam centre from where most of the rankers emerged.
Hagaragi, the former BJP women’s unit president in Kalaburagi, owned the Jnana Jyothi English School, and was arrested and charged for facilitating cheating at her school.
Now, against the 545 posts to which the controversial recruitment was done, compare the test conducted by the Telangana State Level Police Recruitment Board for direct recruitment to 15,644 vacancies of SCT Police Constable (Civil) and equivalent Posts, 63 vacancies of Transport Constables and 614 vacancies of Prohibition & Excise constables on August 28.

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