Row over MLAs, MPs batting for jobs for favourites in Andhra Pradesh

  • Recommendation letters from the ruling party MLAs and MPs to the energy department superintending engineers for filling vacant posts of shift operators at 33 KV sub-stations in APSPDCL and APEPDCL with their candidates.
  • Due to recent appointment of junior linemen  (energy assistants) to village and ward secretariats, around 1,500 vacancies were generated in different sub-stations for shift operators’ post.
  • Some ruling party MLAs and MPs have written letters to officials concerned recommending their candidates for the posts. 
  • United Electricity Contract Workers Union (UECWU) general secretary M Bala Kasi said the recommendation letters.
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  • In his recommendation letter, Kadapa MP YS Avinash Reddy has recommended 10 candidates, while Pedakurapadu MLA Namburu Sankara Rao recommended 14 and Gurazala MLA Kasu Mahesh Reddy two.

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