Former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Wednesday accused the BJP government of systematically pushing Haryana’s youth out of government jobs and favouring candidates from other states through “faulty and manipulated” recruitment processes. Citing the Punjab and Haryana High Court’s decision to cancel the Assistant Professor English recruitment process in Haryana, Hooda said the verdict had exposed both the state government and the functioning of Haryana Public Service Commission (HPSC).Addressing reporters in the national capital, the Leader of Opposition in Haryana Assembly alleged that the BJP government “hates Haryana and Haryanvis”, claiming that outsiders were repeatedly being selected in state recruitments by awarding them higher interview marks while local candidates were forced into long legal battles.Calling the high court verdict a “victory of Haryana’s youth”, Hooda said the judgment made it clear that the problem was not merit but the recruitment system itself.He alleged that rules were deliberately framed in a manner that kept Haryana candidates out and opened the door for applicants from other states.Referring to the Assistant Professor English recruitment, Hooda said only 151 candidates were selected against 613 posts, leaving hundreds of vacancies unfilled. He claimed the biggest injustice was done to DSC category candidates, where only one candidate was selected against 60 reserved seats because of the controversial 35 per cent qualifying condition.According to Hooda, the court has now made it clear that parts of the Haryana Government’s November 11, 2022 guidelines violated clauses 4, 5 and 6 of UGC Regulations 2018, making the recruitment process legally unsustainable.The Congress leader also cited multiple recruitment drives to allege a pattern of discrimination against Haryana youth.He claimed that in the Assistant Professor Hindi recruitment, 41 out of 60 selected candidates in the general category were from outside Haryana. In the Psychology Assistant Professor recruitment, only three candidates reportedly cleared the process for 85 posts despite over 400 applicants appearing.Hooda further alleged that in Haryana Power Utilities’ Assistant Engineer recruitment, only 29 out of 214 candidates called for document verification belonged to Haryana. In another SDO Electrical recruitment, he claimed 78 out of 80 selected candidates were outsiders.He also referred to recruitments in the irrigation department, technical education department, agriculture department and Panchayati Raj institutions to allege that non-Haryana candidates were repeatedly getting preference over locals.Targeting BJP over unemployment, Hooda said educated youth in Haryana were being denied opportunities despite vacancies remaining unfilled across departments.The senior Congress leader also backed the ongoing strike by sanitation workers and urged the state government to immediately accept their demands and resolve the deadlock.Hooda further referred to the farmers’ protest against the three farm laws and said the Congress and Rahul Gandhi had consistently stood with protesting farmers. He said the Centre was forced to repeal the farm laws because of sustained resistance but had still failed to fulfil the legal guarantee for MSP demanded by farmers.