Priyanka assures UP's teaching aspirants of Cong support

Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has met with aspirants for 69,000 vacancies for teachers in Uttar Pradesh and assured them of party's support in the matter.

The Congress leader assured them that the party will fight against the injustice meted out to them after the aspirants said that grave injustice was done to them as corruption in the while recruitment process had come to the fore.

"Injustice should not be done to the hardworking youths. If the state government cannot give them justice, a reply will be given through a movement," she had said in a tweet on Monday.

On Monday, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra compared what she dubbed the teachers' recruitment scam in Uttar Pradesh with Madhya Pradesh's 'Vyapam scam', and slammed the Yogi Adityanath government by claiming that diaries seized from certain racketeers indicated to the involvement of many high-profile people in the recruitment scam.

The Allahabad High Court on last Wednesday stayed the recruitment process to appoint 69,000 assistant basic teachers in the state, holding that there has been an 'error' in the evaluation of answersheets.

The recruitment examination was held on January 6, 2019 and results declared on May 12 this year.