Know about ‘Kharchi’ ‘Parchi’ which PM Modi spoke during Poll Campaign in Haryana
Currently in poll campaign speeches in haryana, prime minister Narendra Modi has repeatedly spoken about how the 10-year congress government in the state from 2004 to 2014 saw a “parchi” and “kharchi” system wherein even jobs could not be got without corruption or favouritism. “A corrupt congress looted haryana, and you have to keep them at bay,” Modi said at a rally in Sonipat. At an earlier rally in Kurukshetra, his first for the haryana elections, the PM said: “The bjp government abolished this system of kharchi, parchi and gave 1.5 lakh government jobs with transparency.”Perhaps as per the bjp, under the congress, the employment system rested on “parchi” hiring based on recommendations of people in power, that is favouritism. Or, on “kharchi” payment of bribes for jobs, that is corruption. The bjp claims this system under the congress was so organised that different bribe rates were fixed for different posts. In private, bjp leaders admit that while the party has latched on to the catchy term, the practice is not dissimilar to what would happen in earlier regimes.Furthermore haryana bjp chief spokesperson jawahar Yadav claims the party government put a stop to “parchi and kharchi”, and carried out recruitment for 1.43 lakh posts via a transparent system, on merit. Not only that, he says, but the bjp government has also given more jobs than the two terms of the Congress. On the bjp government’s employment record, Dhingra says it is only giving temporary jobs and employing people on a daily wage basis.