Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on May 20 released a Samajwadi Audit Report accusing the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh of failing to implement reservation rules across 22 recruitment drives and depriving OBC, SC and minority candidates of their due share.
Mr. Yadav stated that in the recruitment of 69,000 teachers, candidates from Backward Classes received only 3.86 percent of posts against a mandated 27 percent reservation, while Scheduled Castes got 16.21 percent instead of 21 percent. He added that the National Commission for the Backward Classes had acknowledged a scam involving 20,000 seats and that 1,133 posts reserved for Scheduled Tribes remained unfilled.
The audit report highlighted irregularities in several other recruitments, including forest and wildlife guards, Gram Panchayat officers, aided junior high school masters and lekhpals, resulting in more than 11,514 reserved seats not being filled according to rules. Mr. Yadav said candidates had approached every authority without receiving justice.
The Samajwadi Party president vowed to continue the struggle and promised that a future SP government in 2027 would deliver justice to the affected candidates within 90 days and conduct a caste census. SP spokesperson Sunil Singh Yadav said the party would take the reports to villages and blocks across Uttar Pradesh to highlight the alleged injustice.
