THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Tuesday hinted at a press conference that he was not ready to hold discussions with the PSC candidates who are protesting in front of the secretariat. Pointing out that everything possible was done in connection with the rank lists, the Chief Minister requested the candidates to withdraw from the struggles incited by those with narrow political aims. The CM also released the number of appointments made through the PSC by the previous UDF government and the present LDF government. The CM said that the government was doing what was necessary to bring justice to the candidates and hoped that they would be convinced of that.

Urging the candidates to recognise the politics of the opposition, the CM said that their demand for appointments to all those on the list was impossible. The CM also said that there was no system in place to create posts to give appointments to all those on the list. He pointed out that the regularisation took place in the posts which were not left to the PSC. He blamed the UDF for appointing daily wage employees even in the existing posts and said that the previous government had regularised 5910 temporary employees.

By any measure, the Left government has given more to the candidates than the previous government. During the term of the Left government, PSC published 4012 rank lists. On the other hand, only 3113 rank lists were published during the term of the UDF government. During the LDF government, 13825 appointments were made in the police and during the UDF government, 4791 appointments were made, the CM said.