ORDER :

S.MANIKUMAR, J.

I.A.No.5 of 2020 has been filed by three candidates, who claimed to have been included in the rank list prepared by the Kerala Public Service Commission to the post of Lower Division Clerk under various Departments of the Government, seeking to implead themselves as additional respondents in W.P.(C)No.14141 of 2020. Contentions raised by the petitioners in I.A.No.5 of 2020, sought to be impleaded as additional respondents in W.P.(C)No.14141 of 2020, are as hereunder:

“(6) ..... .... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... Enormous number contract appointments are being made under COVID-19 periods. Similar hasty steps are being taken to regularise the service of the persons appointed on contract basis even when there is a valid rank list prepared by the PSC.

(7) It is submitted that in welfare state, a democratically elected government and its machinery cannot act in such arbitrary manner denying the rightful appointment to the eligible candidates. When such arbitrary actions are continued by the State and instrumentalities, the only option left with the citizen is to express their dissent through a protest. If the government and its instrumentality acts in a fair and prud