Dhaka, July 28 -- e-Islami's Nayeb-e-Ameer Syed Abdullah Mohammad Taher on Monday demanded a transparent, merit-based and impartial Public Service Commission (PSC) to keep 'authoritarian ghosts' at bay from the country's bureaucracy.

"We want a PSC that is transparent, merit-based and impartial, so that no 'dictatorial ghost' can rule the administration anymore," he said while briefing reporters during the lunch break of the 20th session of the second-round reform dialogue between the National Consensus Commission and political parties in the capital's Foreign Service Academy.

Taher said many talented young people were denied jobs in the past or lost their jobs due to political identity, which ultimately harmed the state the most.

"In ...