Summary:
Chandigarh, Dec 7 (PTI) The Haryana Congress on Tuesday held a demonstration in Panchkula against the “corruption” in the recruitment of dental surgeons in the state and reiterated their demand for a judicial probe into it to unravel the alleged complicity of higher-ups in it.
The state Congress leaders reiterated the demand while terming the dismissal of a suspended deputy secretary of the Haryana Public Service Commission, arrested earlier for allegedly taking bribes to manipulate marks of candidates for their recruitment, a cover-up exercise.
Senior Congress leaders Randeep Singh Surjewala, Kumari Selja and Vivek Bansal, who led the protest in Panchkula, seeking to gherao the HPSC office, were briefly detained along with some other leaders.
Police took the leaders to the Panchkula police lines from where they were let off later.
The other leaders who participated in the protest included former state ministers Kiran Choudhary and Ajay Singh Yadav and senior leaders Kuldeep Bishnoi, Chander Mohan and Rahubir Singh Kadian, besides many MLAs from Haryana.
Haryana Congress president Kumari Selja later told reporters in Panchkula that police had briefly detained them.