Despite the week’s deadline that the Government had set to sort out the issue to end on Thursday, the Centre continues to be in a fix over the way to resolve the Civil Service Aptitude Test (CSAT) row as the three-member committee set up to examine the matter is yet to submit its report.
Even as the Opposition targeted BJP Ministers for coming out with different statements on the issue, the Centre on Wednesday declined to give a time frame but promised to solve it “soon”.
“The issue was thoroughly discussed for an hour. Both the Home Minister and the Minister for DoPT have said that the issue will be resolved and I promise you that it will be done soon. Government is going to act soon, keeping in mind the issue of different regional languages and the sentiments of the students. As soon as decision is taken, the Government will inform”, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Prakash Javadekar informed the Rajya Sabha.
Seeking a definite timeline from the Government on it, Opposition members led by senior JD(U) leader Sharad Yadav insisted that a resolution should come quickly and the matter should not be allowed to snowball into a nationwide agitation. Congress leader Satyavrat Chaturvedi too associated with Yadav and said that whatever Yadav is saying is right. “The seven-day timeline is completing tomorrow (Thursday). We want to know whether the matter will be resolved by tomorrow (Thursday)”, Chaturvedi said.
Yadav said that while the DoPT Minister had said on Friday said that a resolution will come within a week, Home Minister Rajnath Singh has now said it will take a week more. Members from Congress, Samajwadi Party, DMK, CPI-M, CPI and Trinamool Congress supported him.
