Chandigarh, May 25 -- Hitting out at the BJP government in Haryana for putting the jobs of about 30,000 permanent government employees at risk, Congress MP, Randeep Singh Surjewala on Saturday said that the high court's decision to quash the provision of providing bonus marks to candidates as per the socio-economic criteria have put the jobs of government employees recruited after 2019 under a cloud.

At a briefing, the former state minister said that as socio-economic criteria stands quashed, a revised merit list will have to be prepared after deducting the marks awarded to candidates as per the socio-economic criteria. "We demand that since the socio-economic criteria has been set aside, the government should create additional posts to ...