Imagine this: Young men and women from villages and towns across Tamil Nadu, many from modest backgrounds, balancing jobs, families, and coaching classes. They studied through power cuts, borrowed books, skipped meals, and ignored social lives – all for a shot at stable government employment. They woke up early, travelled long distances, only to find chaos at the gates. Overcrowded halls, mismatched allocations, and finally, the announcement: Exam cancelled. The frustration, the tears, the wasted money on travel, accommodation, and last-minute revisions – all because the DMK cannot manage basic logistics.
In yet another damning indictment of the DMK’s “Dravidian Model of Development” – which is fast revealing itself as the Dravidian Model of Disaster – the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission (TNPSC) was forced to cancel the Group II A Mains examination on Sunday after a colossal administrative failure. Over 9,000 candidates, who had poured years of blood, sweat, and sleepless nights into preparation for just 1,000 vacancies in assistant and revenue inspector posts, saw their dreams crushed because the DMK government couldn’t even assign exam centres properly.
A “technical glitch,” they call it. How convenient. Around 600 candidates were wrongly allotted centres due to a software error, leading to a situation where nearly 1,000 aspirants descended on a single college equipped for only 300. The afternoon Tamil eligibility test was also postponed. There’s no clarity on revised exam dates as youth who have already sacrificed prime years of their lives stare at a bleak future.
BJP State President K. Annamalai didn’t mince words in his scathing condemnation. “The DMK government’s mess in arranging exam centres has led to the cancellation of today’s TNPSC Group 2 and 2A exams. This is strongly condemnable. They are in such a pathetic state that they cannot even make basic arrangements for government exams,” he posted, highlighting how this fiasco has robbed Tamil Nadu’s youth of their hard-earned opportunities.
Annamalai went further, voicing the suspicion on every aspirant’s mind: “This kind of chaos has never happened in so many years. Is this because DMK ministers, with their history of accepting bribes to provide government jobs, orchestrated it?” He demanded that Chief Minister M.K. Stalin apologise to the state’s youth.
இன்று நடைபெறவிருந்த டிஎன்பிஎஸ்சி குரூப்2, குரூப் 2 ஏ தேர்வுகள், தேர்வு மையங்களை அமைப்பதில் திமுக அரசு செய்த குளறுபடியால் ரத்து செய்யப்பட்டிருப்பது வன்மையாகக் கண்டிக்கத்தக்கது. அரசுத் தேர்வுகளுக்கான அடிப்படை ஏற்பாடுகளைக் கூடச் செய்ய முடியாத கையாலாகாத நிலையில், திமுக அரசு…
— K.Annamalai (@annamalai_k) February 8, 2026
This is not the first time TNPSC exams under DMK have descended into farce. Previous Group exams have seen allegations of irregularities, protests by aspirants, and demands for re-exams.
In 2024, TNPSC cancelled the Assistant Public Prosecutor exam originally scheduled for this year and rescheduled it to February 2025 following disruptions and technical issues.
The TNPSC Group 2 and 2A mains exam on February 25, 2023, descended into chaos across multiple districts due to incorrect distribution of question papers and OMR sheets, delays, misinformation by invigilators, and alleged compromise of exam integrity, leaving candidates outraged and uncertain about their future.
In 2023, TNPSC’s Group 4 exam results sparked controversy after reports claimed a disproportionate number of successful candidates came from a few coaching centres
The pattern is clear: When the DMK is in power, recruitment processes become avenues for patronage and corruption rather than merit-based selection.
The DMK’s track record with public recruitment is littered with scandals. From cash-for-jobs rackets involving crores to repeated allegations of paper leaks, tampering, and favouritism, TNPSC under DMK rule has become synonymous with inefficiency rather than merit. Even when the party was in opposition, its leaders screamed for CBI probes into TNPSC scams. Now in power, the same party presides over a system where honest preparation is punished and connections (or cash) prevail.
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