After the Supreme Court’s decision in the Bengal Teacher Recruitment Scam case, many candidates wept and they have blamed both the state and the central government for this situation. The court has canceled the jobs of about 26 thousand teachers admitted in the state schools/colleges.
Hundreds of teachers who passed the 2016 recruitment examination conducted by West Bengal School Services Commission were staging a sit-in in the middle of Kolkata for months and requested that the judiciary consider the merits of their affairs and validate them while giving the verdict. After hearing about the Supreme Court’s decision, many of them wept.
A teacher working in a school aided school aided by the state government told reporters, ‘We had lost all the expectations. We respect the order of the Supreme Court, but what is our fault? We had passed the 2016 SSC exam, but due to the corrupt conduct of a section of the government, some unqualified candidates helped in appointment, which destroyed our whole world. Another candidate alleged that both the state and the Center are responsible for this situation.
He questioned, ‘We have heard that we will be allowed to appear again in the SSC exam. If it had been in 2016-17, we would have been excited about this possibility and started afresh, but tell us that now that we have crossed the age limit of 30 years, how will it be possible for us? ‘
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) also demanded her resignation, holding Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee responsible for the plight of about 26,000 teachers. BJP’s Bengal unit president and Union Minister of State for Education Sukant Majumdar said in a post on the social media platform X, ‘The state has failed the entire responsibility of the state on such a large scale in the recruitment of the state. The Supreme Court’s decision has made it clear how the qualifications of educated unemployed youth in West Bengal were sold in lieu of money under the rule of Mamata Banerjee.
He demanded that Banerjee should take full responsibility of this corruption and resign from the post of Chief Minister. He said, ‘No more forgiveness.’ In a video posted on ‘X’, Majumdar expressed sympathy to the qualified candidates who got a job using their skills and merit, but they became victims of the corrupt operation of the entire recruitment process by the Mamata Banerjee government. This corrupt recruitment process is fully responsible for providing jobs to a large number of tainted teachers in an irregular manner.
Majumdar said, ‘He (unqualified candidates) could not be separated from eligible candidates. The corrupt Mamta Banerjee government should clarify the families of the people of the state, especially qualified teachers. Rajya Sabha member of Trinamool Congress, Dola Sen said that the party respects the decision and he said that the party has always been against corruption. He said, ‘We hope that the state government will investigate the order, legal issues intensively and take appropriate steps after talking to legal experts. The party will always stand with qualified candidates.
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