Anu, 28, was found hanging in his home with a suicide note nearby.
Key points
- There are 10,814 candidates in the health department listed on the ranking list published in July 2018. Only 1,500 candidates have been appointed in the two years since then.
- A ranking list prepared by the Kerala Public Service Commission for the position of reserve guard and warehouse guard a year ago has never seen the light of day.
- Two years have passed since an examination was conducted to select the candidates for the post of civilian policewoman.
Thiruvananthapuram: Totally depressed and outcast after failing to find a government job even after being named to the eligibility list, a 28-year-old graduate student named Anu commits suicide by hanging himself at home. The tragic incident took place during the early hours of the day in Thattittambalam, a small town on the outskirts of Thiruvananthapuram.
A suicide note found near his body mentioned that it was mental anguish and the inability to find a job that led him to take the extreme step. The suicide note read: “I’m sick of life, I can’t laugh and act in front of anyone. The reason for everything is that I am unemployed ”.
Meanwhile, tensions prevailed in front of Anu’s residence when local MLA CK Hareendran arrived on the scene and justified the cancellation of the PSC list. A group of Yuva Morcha workers tried to mistreat him, claiming that “the state government killed Anu.”
The workers also said that PSC appointments are being controlled by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. Later, some more Kerala police teams were brought to the scene to disperse the protesters.
Meanwhile, protests broke out in various places against the state government over the recurrence of countless cases in which eligible candidates are unable to find a job in the government sector and cases in which CPM affiliates and former SFI leaders find a place in the PSC. list.
The Youth Congress and Yuva Morcha, the youth wing teams of the Congress and the BJP protested near the secretariat demanding a detailed investigation into the back door entries of CPM affiliated candidates.
Meanwhile, tensions prevailed in front of Anu’s residence when local MLA CK Hareendran arrived on the scene and justified the cancellation of the PSC list. A group of Yuva Morcha workers tried to mistreat him, claiming that “the state government killed Anu.”
The workers also said that PSC appointments are being controlled by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. Later, some more Kerala police teams were brought to the scene to disperse the protesters. The leader of the opposition, Ramesh Chennithala, visited Anu’s residence.
Over the past four years, there have been large-scale discrepancies that have come to the fore in appointments where jobs were provided to SFI leaders and CPM affiliates who did not meet the eligibility criteria. Complaints were filed from various quarters following these findings.
Meanwhile, the State Chairman of the Youth Congress, Shafi Parambil MLA, alleged that Anu’s suicide was an example of Kerala PSC’s apathy.
BJP State Chairman K Surendran said in Kozhikode that only backdoor contracts, consulting and appointments had been carried out in Kerala in the past four years. “It is irony that Swapna Suresh received a salary of Rs 2 lakh per month despite having only X-class education. This is the situation in the state,” he added.
