New Delhi, Oct. 30 -- The Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government has tightened character verification rules for government job applicants, making individuals associated with organisations seeking to change the existing social order through violence ineligible for recruitment.

The revised guidelines state that a person will be considered ineligible if they are a member of 'any organisation whose resolved object is to alter the existing order of society by violent means'.

The move is learnt to have been prompted by youth protests across several states, particularly those led by the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP), The Print reported.

The revised guidelines were issued on Wednesday by Principal Secretary (Appointment & Personnel) M. De...