The Opposition Congress-led UDF on Tuesday lashed out at the LDF government in the Kerala Assembly over the alleged backdoor appointments and attempts to make permanent the contract staff en masse in various state-run institutions and later staged a walkout even though Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan denied the charges.

 The opposition claimed the government had made double the number of temporary appointments than the total number of recruitment by the state Public Service Commission (PSC), the apex recruitment agency in the southern state. They also released a letter written by the state Film Academy Chairman, Kamal to Cultural Affairs Minister, AK Balan reportedly requesting that contract employees having to lean towards Marxist ideology in the institution be made permanent to maintain the Left-leaning nature of the institution.

Rejecting the charges raised in the adjournment motion, the Chief Minister, however, said the opposition was trying to create a smokescreen on the government appointments.

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan responded by naming the incident as "unfortunate". It is the govt’s policy to recruit maximum people from the PSC rank list. The government has given employment to 1,51,513 people registered through employment exchange in the last four years," he said.

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