The Assembly is a sacred platform. Bring your evidence here: Naidu
The Chief Minister turned the DSC argument back on the Opposition in the Assembly, alleging that the young people the protests claim to speak for have not been on the streets at all. Unemployed candidates did not turn up, he said, and daily-wage workers were brought from Odisha to fill the crowds. It is the sharpest charge the government has made in a fortnight of protests, detentions and arrests across the State, and it goes to the legitimacy of the agitation rather than its substance.
On the recruitment itself, Mr. Naidu said there was nothing left to hide. The answer key, the merit list and the selection list are all public, and every selection can be explained, traced, audited and accounted for. Anyone with proof of irregularity, he said, should bring it to the House.
That was the challenge he kept returning to. The Assembly is a sacred platform, he said, where an allegation can be made and answered on the evidence, and the Opposition has chosen the street instead. He called it hit-and-run politics: raise the charge outside, avoid the questions inside.
He also warned that the attempts to damage the coalition government’s credibility would not work, and that those making the allegations would be exposed the moment they came to the House with anything to show.