Most of the politicians will dream about their son or daughter must follow their steps but here is an amazing story of an MLA who satisfied his son has landed a government job as a peon at the state assembly.
Ram Kishan, the son of Jagdish Narayan Meena, sitting BJP MLA from Jamwa Ramgarh, is one of 18 people selected from 18,008 candidates for a Grade IV vacancy, said state assembly sources.
The selections were made on the basis of interviews by a selection board but the MLA’s son’s case has led to demands for an investigation of the selection process. Meena belongs to the ST category.
Rajasthan Pradesh Congress president Sachin Pilot said a high-level inquiry should be held. The BJP government, which had promised the youth 15 lakh jobs, was now using nepotism in the few thousand jobs it had created, Pilot alleged.
There were similar complaints of nepotism during the selection of “gram sevaks”. He said it was alleged that BJP leaders’ relatives had been selected as “gram sevaks” in place of “Vidhyarthi Mitras”.
Meena, a first-time BJP MLA, said his eldest son, Ram Kishan, had applied for the job after the assembly secretariat had advertised for the post. “My son is only Metric (sic). Since Ram Kishan is the eldest of four siblings, he had to take care of the farms and his younger siblings. So he could study only up to Matriculation (sic),” said the MLA. He said that his son had been selected through the routine selection process and that there was nothing unusual in his getting the job.
When asked why he had not taken the opportunity to launch his son in politics, as other politicians do, Meena said politics was not everybody’s cup of tea.
This is the second time an MLA’s son has applied for a Grade IV job in government. Earlier, BJP legislator Heera Lal Verma’s son Hansraj, who had studied till Class 8, had appeared for an interview at Ajmer’s Krishi Upaj Mandi (Rajasthan State Agriculture Marketing Board) in 2015. A two-time MLA from Tonk district, Verma, who was a state government officer before joining politics, had said then that his son was “less educated” and, therefore, eligible only for a Grade IV job. He had added that he didn’t want him to enter politics nor do any other work “beyond his capabilities or eligibility”.
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