The Rising People’s Party (RPP) on June 7, 2025, issued a strong appeal to the ruling NDPP-BJP coalition government, urging it to “at least spare the IAS from backdoor entry,” condemning what it described as the “fruit of an oppositionless government” that “throws every rule book into the dustbin by inducting tom, dick and harry into the IAS through backdoor bypassing all government rules and norms.”
The party’s statement differentiated between “ex-cadre” employees—defined as “temporary/arbitrarily appointed employee[s] of the state government as differentiated from cadre posts/employees who have been appointed through normal routes such as NPSC”—and regular IAS appointees. It emphasized that an “ex-cadre is also necessarily a backdoor appointee in many cases,” thus framing the ongoing controversy raised by CANSSEA, FONSESA, NSSA, and NF&ASA as “very serious.”
The RPP referenced a precedent set “several years back,” when “an officer appointed through backdoor was inducted into the IAS.”
According to the statement, “at that time, no hue and cry was raised largely because the general public was unaware, and secondly because of the then oppositionless government which was in power.”
Now that the issue “is in public domain,” the RPP urged the concerned organizations—CANSSEA, FONSESA, NSSA, and NF&ASA—to “reveal the name of this particular officer/IAS candidate who it seems is particularly favoured by the political establishment,” and to “clarify whether this candidate is a backdoor appointee as far as his/her entry point into the service is concerned.”
The party described the “latest controversy” as “a prime example of how manipulative an oppositionless government can be,” suggesting that the NDPP-BJP coalition may have “felt that it could forge ahead with its insidious agenda.” However, it welcomed the “bold manner in which CANSSEA, FONSESA, NSSA, and NF&ASA have stiffly opposed the government on the issue,” calling it “a welcome step in the right direction.”
The RPP pledged to “continue to extend its support to CANSSEA, FONSESA, NSSA, and NF&ASA, and ensure that unqualified and undeserving candidates do not pollute the system.”