No bid in Kerala to recruit female students for terrorist activities: CM
The Hindu
‘Narcotic jihad issue has not created any rift in society’
The State government has not noticed any attempt being made to lure female students into terrorist activities from college campuses, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan informed the Assembly on Monday.
Interestingly, Mr. Vijayan’s response to a question in the House has come amid recent reports that the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] had alerted its cadres about alleged attempts by radical elements to recruit professional college students for extremist activities.
The issue was raised in the House by Shafi Parambil, A.P. Anil Kumar, Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan and Sajeev Joseph of the Congress through a starred question.
Around 440 MBBS graduates of 2021 are not required to undergo one year of compulsory rural service as per the bond signed by them while joining the medical course through government-quota seats in 2015 as the High Court of Karnataka has said the law, enacted in 2012 for mandatory rural service, remained unenforced for 10 years as it was published in the official gazette only in July 2022.