Leaders of the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) State committee have urged the government to allow all the candidates who had qualified in the preliminary round examination of the police constable recruitment examination to participate in the physical tests.

In a statement on January 24 (Friday), the federation’s State president Y. Ramu and secretary G. Ramanna said candidates aspiring for police constable posts should not be made scapegoats for negligence on the part of the government.

Recalling that the previous YSR Congress Party government had issued a notification for recruitment of 6,100 police constable posts on November 28, 2022, they said 95,208 of the total 4,59,182 candidates who appeared for the preliminary round of exam held on January 22, 2023 qualified in it. But, due to the subsequent MLC elections and court cases, the recruitment process was repeatedly postponed for over last two years. “Now, the candidates are being rejected permission to attend the physical events citing age bar, which is not justified,” they said.

The DYFI leaders demanded that the government allow all candidates who qualified in the preliminary exams to participate in the physical events. They also demanded compensation to the families of the three candidates who died during the 1,600-metre run in the physical events, across the State.