Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal on Sunday said that those anti-Punjab elements represented by the Congress and Aam Aadmi Party got a tight slap and egg on their faces with the negligible dope positive results during police recruitments conducted recently.
Sukhbir, speaking on the occasion of handing over appointment letters to the newly-joined constables, said that today is a red letter day in the history of Punjab as 5,581 police constables, both male and female, have been inducted into the Punjab Police after a rigorous, merit-based and totally transparent recruitment process.
“Transparency in recruitments is the forte of the SAD-BJP Government which has created such an atmosphere that now even the poorest of the poor can aspire to get jobs purely on merit,” he said.
In the past six months, one lakh people have been given jobs and in respect of police department, the SAD-BJP government has effected more than 25,000 recruitments during its present tenure which accounts for 40 percent of the force, he said.
He also added that around 550 sub-inspectors are being recruited out of which more than 200 would be women thereby making visible on ground the emphasis of the state government to recruit more women. Terming Punjab Police as the best in the country, Sukhbir said that the bravery and daring of the Punjab Police reflected from the way it handled the Dinanagar terror attack and neutralized all the terrorists on its own. Making a strong pitch for the development-oriented measures, the Deputy Chief Minister mentioned sewa kendars, saanjh kendars and accelerated promotions in the police to name a few.