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These appointments were made during the tenure of Govind Singh Kunjwal from 2012 till 2017 and Prem Chand Aggarwal from 2017 till 2022 as speakers. A total of 78 appointments in the state assembly were made during the interim assembly period when Parkask Pant was the Speaker after the formation of the new state in 2000. During \u00a0the first elected government of N.D.Tewari, Yashpal arya, presently the Leader of Opposition was the Speaker and 105 persons were appointed. Harbans Kapoor as speaker from 2007 till 2012 appointed 55 persons , while Govind Singh kunjwal who took over after Congress came back to power in 2012 appointed 150 persons including his own son and daughter-in-law among others. Prem Chand Aggarwal, who was Speaker from 2017 till 2022 in the last BJP government of the state had appointed 72 persons.<\/p>\n
Following uproar large scale over back door appointments in Uttarakhand state assembly since the inception of the separate state, Uttarakhand Assembly speaker Ritu Khanduri had ordered a high level probe into such appointments on September 3.<\/p>\n
Ritu Khanduri had ordered the probe into the state assembly appointments following a letter written by Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami requesting her to inquire into the entire issue. The state BJP government has been under tremendous pressure following reports of illegal and back door appointments in state assembly by former speakers including Prem Chand Aggarwal who is presently the Finance Minister of the state. The examination paper leak scandal involving a BJP leader and similar such scandals in other recruitments have rocked the state BJP government in the past one month.<\/p>\n
It was alleged that\u00a0 Uttarakhand Assembly having only 70 legislators have more than 560 employees while the mother state of Uttar Pradesh having 400 legislators have only 543 employees.\u00a0 It was charged that near and dears one of BJP leaders including former state BJP president, wives of two OSDs of Chief Minister and personal staff of ministers have been recruited.<\/p>\n
Interestingly, it came to light that not only BJP but during the Congress regime, Govind Singh Kunjwal, the then Speaker who is considered a \u2018Gandhian\u2019 also indulged in such recruitments giving jobs in state assembly to his own son and daughter-in-law and other near and dears ones.<\/p>\n
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