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New Delhi3 hours agoWriters: Deepti Mishra
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160 candidates including 35 girls who have passed written, physical and medical tests for Para Medical Forces under SSC GD 2018 are on foot march for 62 days demanding appointment letter. These unemployed people reached Palwal, Haryana on July 27, after facing all the troubles like jungle-mountain, harsh sun, rain, rocky road and misbehavior of the administration. Where the police harassed by stopping for the first three days. Then late on August 1, they were forcibly dumped in the bus and taken them separately and left. During this, the police officers misbehaved with the girls. The SIM cards of the candidates were broken. Forcibly delete photos and videos from their phones and social media.
One of the unemployed, Shankar Madhukar Dhoke, who was taking out a march on foot from Nagpur to Delhi, contacted Bhaskar’s reporter at 12:25 pm. During this, all his companions including Shankar were very scared. Shankar shared the live location on WhatsApp message and wrote in the message, ‘We are on the bus now. We don’t know where we are being taken.
The six companions who went with the police could not be contacted
Shankar told, ‘We all reached Palwal on July 27. The Palwal Police had taken six of our comrades – Kajal from West Bengal, Amita from Chhattisgarh, Vishal Landge and Kaduba Rathod from Maharashtra, Bhishmaraj from Odisha, and Susan Toy of Assam – for a press conference in Delhi, but since then these people We are unable to contact. We all asked the police about those people thousands of times. Once pleaded for a talk, but the police did not give any information about our comrades.
Unemployed youth taking out a foot march from Nagpur to Delhi.
Hands raised on girls, we are scared of the attitude of the police
According to Shankar, ‘We stopped eating and drinking. We sat on a dharna that we will not move from here and will not eat or drink anything until our comrades are talked to. The police forced him to feed by intimidation. On the 62nd day, the police arrested all our comrades and kept them in the Tinwari Royal Palace, 7 km from Palwal. Here the police officers tried to feed all of us by threatening us. When the girls refused to eat, the officers did not hesitate to raise their hands on them.
Late on Monday, August 1, we were all forcibly put in a bus and then we are being taken to Agra by Yamuna Expressway. We are all worried about our 6 companions. Even while boarding the bus, we requested to speak to the police officers. He also told them to send our comrades back to us, after that we will return. Despite this, they did not give any information about our companions. We are all scared. Concerned for his six companions, including two girls.
These youths who came out of Nagpur had reached Palwal adjoining Delhi a few days back.
Why is a foot march being taken out?
Vishal, who led the march, had told that in the year 2018, recruitment was done for 60,210 posts in Para Military Force under SSC GD. We passed the written, physical and medical test, but we did not get the appointment letter. The government filled only 55 thousand posts. We started a demonstration in Delhi regarding this from February 2021. We wanted to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah, but did not get time to meet them. Our colleagues went to the offices of all the MPs in Delhi and went there and pleaded for help. Meanwhile, someone suggested that you meet Union Minister Nitin Gadkari, he can get you to meet PM Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah.
Only assurance but no employment
We met Union Minister Nitin Gadkari, gave him a memorandum. He assured us to get the appointment letter within 15 days. Even after 20 days, when appointment letters were not received and Gadkari could not be met. Then we fasted for 72 days at the Constitution Chowk in Nagpur. After this, Union Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment Ramdas Athawale spoke to us on video conference and assured that the appointment would be given soon. When about one and a half months passed, some of our colleagues including our girls reached Delhi Union Minister Athawale’s office to meet him and there he was misbehaved with them. Was kicked out. Then we decided to take out a foot march from Nagpur to Delhi.
Appointment letter not received after passing SSC GD 2018 test.
At the beginning of the march there were only 4 girls
On June 1, 40 unemployed youth, including 4 girls, started a foot march from Nagpur’s Constitution Chowk. Gradually, boys and girls from all over the country joined in this march. At present, there are more than 160 unemployed youth, including 35 girls, in the foot march.
Rupali Himran, a resident of Midnapore, West Bengal, said, “We are going hungry and thirsty for the last two months. There is neither grain to eat nor a place to sleep. Sometimes there is no water even to drink. The District Magistrate of Sagar in Madhya Pradesh did not allow us to stay there for food and drink. In 49 degree mercury, a decree was issued to the people to keep walking without stopping. The Agra Police first made us stop at the gurudwara and then dropped us by taking us to Dholpur, Morena, Shikohabad and Etawah. The mobile phones of our comrades were also snatched and released with a warning of never coming to UP again. When we reached Mathura, the police there also misbehaved with us. Kept sitting in the sun all day. Due to this the health of two girls deteriorated.
Rupali said, while fighting for our rights, we have become disturbed both mentally and physically. There are blisters on the feet. Every part of the body is moaning with pain. Since childhood, we had only one dream that we would do something for the country, but did it in our own country. Now I am feeling that why did I have this dream at all?