Last Updated on 26/07/2024 by wccexam Desk
The Modi government at the center recently lifted the 58-year-old ban on government employees participating in the activities of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). While the opposition criticized this decision, the ruling party called it a better decision. Now the Madhya Pradesh High Court has also commented on this matter. On Thursday, the High Court said that it took the government about five decades to realize its mistake.
The High Court said that it took nearly five decades for the Central Government to realise that a ‘world famous organisation like Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’ was wrongly included in the list of organisations banned for government employees.
It took five decades to realize the mistake
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According to PTI, the High Court’s remark came when a bench of Justice Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari and Justice Gajendra Singh disposed of the writ petition of retired central government employee Purushottam Gupta. Gupta had filed a petition in the High Court on September 19 last year challenging the Central Civil Services (Conduct) Rules as well as the Center’s office memorandums, which were prohibiting government employees from participating in union activities.
The bench said, “The court regrets that it took nearly five decades for the Central government to realise its mistake; to accept that an internationally renowned organisation like the RSS was wrongly placed among the banned organisations of the country.”
Big court order
The court further said, ‘Due to this restriction, the aspirations of many central government employees to serve the country in these five decades were curtailed, which was removed only when it was brought to the notice of this court through the present proceedings.’
The bench directed the Department of Personnel and Training and the Ministry of Home Affairs of the Central government to publicly display on the home page of their official website the office memorandum of July 9, through which the ban on government employees from engaging in union activities was lifted.
“Therefore, we direct the Department of Personnel and Training and the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India to prominently publish on the home page of their official website the information regarding the amendment made on 9th July 2024 in the earlier orders regarding the ban. The court said that this step has been taken to ensure that all government employees and the general public are aware of the change in policy.