Govt's move to allow lateral entry violates Constitution: SP, BSP

The Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party have slammed the government's move seeking applications for lateral entry into the bureaucracy, terming it as the BJP's "conspiracy" to appoint its ideological allies to high posts through the back door

SP chief Akhilesh Yadav also warned of an agitation on this issue from October 2.

In a post on 'X', Yadav said, "Time has come to launch a nationwide movement against the conspiracy of the BJP to appoint its ideological allies to high government posts in UPSC through the back door."

"This method will close the way for today's officers as well as the youth to reach higher posts in the present and future. Common people will be limited to clerks and peons only. In fact, the whole trick is to snatch reservation and their rights from PDA (backward, Dalit and minorities)," the former Uttar Pradesh chief minister charged.

"Now that BJP has come to know that PDAs across the country have woken up against the BJP's trick to abolish the Constitution,