"Devendra ji should apologise" Supriya Sule hits back at Fadnavis on issue over contractual recruitment
Oct 22, 2023
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], October 22 : Nationalist Congress Party MP Supriya Sule on Sunday hit out at Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadanvis on the contractual recruitment issue and asked him to apologize.
"Devendra ji (Fadnavis) should apologize... He is confused. I feel bad for him... The GR (Government Resolution) that he read, whose signatures were there in it? ... What was Sharad Pawar's role in that GR? When you make allegations, they should be substantiated. He misled Maharashtra, so he should first apologize..." MP Supriya Sule said.
Earlier on Friday, Fadnavis, through documents, claimed that the erstwhile Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government had filled up posts using the contractual recruitment method.
Notably, the initial decision to introduce contractual recruitment was taken in Maharashtra on March 13, 2003.
The first drive under contractual recruitment was undertaken in the education department. Later in 2010, when Ashok Chavan was the chief minister, the first government resolution for contractual recruitment was passed, and contract recruitment began.
Later, when Uddhav Thackeray became the chief minister, a similar recruitment drive was undertaken.
Eknath Shinde led Maharashtra government on Saturday ended contractual hiring via outsourcing. Amid huge uproar and protests, the Maharashtra government scrapped the government resolution (GR) for contractual recruitments in various government departments.
Earlier on Saturday, the BJP workers held a 'Chappal Maro' protest against the MVA and then Congress Chief Ministers, Ashok Chavan and Prithviraj Chavan, who ran the Maharashtra government during the 15-year rule of the Democratic Front (DF) coalition (1999-2014) on the issue of contractual recruitment policy.
BJP workers thrashed posters of Uddhav Thackeray and MVA leaders for recruiting staff on a contract basis by nine private agencies, saying that it was the previous MVA dispensation that had taken a decision to hire a workforce on a short-term basis.
