KPSC recruitment row: BJP targets Rahul Gandhi over Karnataka government's SC plea
The BJP has criticized Rahul Gandhi and the Congress-led Karnataka government for opposing a court-monitored investigation into a KPSC recruitment scandal. The BJP alleges that the government's move to block the probe in the Supreme Court demonstrates hypocrisy and a desire to protect high-level officials.
Why it matters
The dispute highlights the intense political polarization in India regarding corruption allegations and the independence of judicial oversight in state-level recruitment.
NEW DELHI: With the Karnataka government moving the Supreme Court against the high court’s order for a court-monitored probe by SIT into tainted recruitment tests by KPSC, BJP said this exposed Rahul Gandhi’s double standards, as Congress has used similar issues to campaign against it in other states but is opposing a thorough investigation where his party is in office.Karnataka government argued before the Supreme Court that the high court's decision “amounted to judicial overreach against government leadership”, BJP’s Sambit Patra said, adding that it meant overreach against CM D K Shivakumar.As the probe reached KPSC chairman S Sahukar, who has been suspended, the issue of the top leadership came up, he alleged,…
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