YSRCP president Jagan Mohan Reddy alleged that the DSC-2025 recruitment process was engineered by Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu and HRD Minister Nara Lokesh, with safeguards and institutional checks removed to enable financial exploitation. He called the process a mega scam and asserted it had been converted into a money-spinning scheme. According to Reddy, the recruitment for 16,000 posts was systematically corrupted through fraud to generate illicit financial gain. Reddy also alleged that the process caused emotional distress to hundreds of thousands of applicants due to fraud and deceit, according to newindianexpress.com. He further claimed, as reported by newindianexpress.com, that the DSC-2025 recruitment was the most disastrous in the history of Andhra Pradesh and involved irregularities at an unprecedented scale. Reddy stated that DSC represents the hopes and aspirations of hundreds of thousands of unemployed youth, according to newindianexpress.com.