Lucknow. In a letter written to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath by Union Minister of State Anupriya Patel, National President of Apna Dal (Sonelal), an ally in the NDA government, the issue of reservation in recruitments has again heated up. Anupriya has said that in various competitive examinations, the process of not found suitable is repeatedly adopted for the posts reserved for other backward classes and scheduled castes/tribes and those posts are declared unreserved.

On this, the Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission has shown the rules to the government that there is no such provision. If the candidates do not get the minimum qualifying marks in any category relative to the vacancies or are not available, then the commission does not have the right to convert such unfilled vacancies into any other category. Despite being the Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare in the NDA government at the Center, such a letter from Anupriya sparked various kinds of debates in the political field and its implications started being drawn.

Suddenly, this step of hers is being linked to her future politics. Anupriya's allegations are on reservation in interview based recruitment process. Her demand is that by making necessary provisions, it should be made mandatory to fill the posts reserved for backward class and scheduled caste/tribe category candidates from these categories in competitive examinations with interview based recruitment process only. Even if the recruitment process has to be done several times for this.

They say that candidates from this category are declared not found suitable for reserved posts and no candidate from this category is selected. Whereas, candidates from SC/ST category in OBC category also pass the minimum eligibility test on the basis of their merit. Also, they are found eligible for interview based examinations.

Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission also wrote a letter to the government

On this, Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission has also written a letter to the government on its behalf and informed that it is clear in the rules that even if the minimum qualifying marks are not obtained, 'Not Found Suitable' is not marked, but grading is marked. After the completion of the interview, the grading given by the members of the interview board and technical consultants is changed on the basis of the principle of average and marked in the mark sheet.

If the candidates do not possess or are not available the minimum qualifying marks in any category in relation to the vacancies, then the Commission has no right to convert all such unfilled vacancies to any other category at the Commission level. Taking action as per the Government order, such vacancies are carried forward. The people taking the interview are not given information about the candidate's serial number, name, caste (category), age.

On the other hand, on this issue, Avnish Pandey, President of the Competitive Student Struggle Committee, says that the 81st Amendment Act of the Constitution, 2000, has given the power to the state government to consider such vacant posts as a separate category and fill them from the reserved category only. They should not be mixed with the vacancies of that year. This amendment has abolished the 50 percent limit of reservation in the case of backlog vacancies. Therefore, this cannot be done.

SP also raised the issue of tampering with reservation

SP has also raised the issue of tampering with reservation in the recruitment of SGPGI. Party spokesperson Dr. Ashutosh Verma wrote on Internet Media X that tampering with reservation is being done openly in the country's top institute SGPGI Lucknow! Applications were given for 97 seats, out of which 48 reserved seats were reserved for only two SC/ST doctors and eight OBC doctors were selected, no one knows where the remaining 38 seats went.