KOLKATA: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday promised that her authorities would discover a strategy to save the roles of what she termed had been deserving candidates following the orders of the Supreme Court docket within the bribes-for-jobs case, and urged teaching- and non-teaching employees to proceed working.
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee asserted that she would proceed combating for the lecturers who misplaced their jobs after the SC verdict (HT Picture/Samir Jana)
“Till I am alive I won’t allow anyone to take away jobs of the deserving candidates. This is my commitment. Don’t think we have accepted this (verdict). I may be sent to jail for saying this. But I don’t care,” Banerjee mentioned whereas addressing a gathering of affected lecturers at Kolkata’s Netaji Indoor Stadium.
“Do you think I am a fool that I will cancel all the jobs despite knowing they are deserving? This can’t be. Have faith.”
Final week the Supreme Court docket cancelled the roles of 25,752 teaching- and non-teaching employees in state-run colleges within the bribes-for-jobs case.
“Even if the Supreme Court doesn’t give a favourable order, the state government will ensure that you are reinstated within two months through a process. You won’t have to suffer any break in service,” she added.
The chief minister didn’t elaborate on the “process”.
“First we would seek a clarification from the court. What will the affected people do? Who will run the school? Who would do the job?” she mentioned.
“We will be grateful if the clarification comes. Else we will fill the gaps. We will find a way to stand beside you. You don’t have to suffer for 20 years if you suffer for two months. And I will compensate for those two months too. You don’t have to beg. I keep my word,” she added.
Those that misplaced their jobs had been all empanelled in 2016. A bench led by Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna on April 3 scrapped the appointment of 25,752 lecturers and staffers in West Bengal’s state-aided colleges after discovering the choice course of tainted with large-scale fraud and manipulation. The highest court docket mentioned it had no choice however to scrap your entire panel as a result of there was no means left to distinguish between tainted and untainted workers.
“In the Vyapam case in BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh, so many people were killed. They have not got justice till today. In NEET, many allegations surfaced. The Supreme Court did not cancel the examination. Why is Bengal being targeted? We want to know. You are scared of Bengal’s talent,” she mentioned.
The chief minister additionally promised to look into the case of those that have been branded as non-deserving.
Banerjee additionally launched a scathing assault in opposition to the BJP, calling the social gathering a “two-headed cobra”.
“I have lost my job. We wanted justice. We submitted all the documents. But still we received this verdict. People are now taunting us and asking us how much bribe we paid,” mentioned a faculty trainer who misplaced her job.
Banerjee’s outreach to the lecturers comes amid a pointy marketing campaign by the Bharatiya Janata Celebration in opposition to the ruling Trinamool Congress over the case. On Monday,
Suvendu Adhikari, BJP legislator and chief of the opposition in state meeting blamed the chief minister for the termination of the staffers and accused her authorities of repeatedly failing to submit the record of eligible and tainted candidates to the Supreme Court docket.
He urged the terminated educating and non-teaching employees to file evaluate petitions earlier than the Supreme Court docket and introduced that BJP MLAs would bear the authorized prices if vital.
“The state still has a chance. Submit the list by April 15. Otherwise, on April 21, we will march to Nabanna with one lakh people. This will be a non-political, people’s movement. We will sit in dharna, and if needed, we will push this government out of power,” Adhikari instructed reporters.
The case stemmed from the alleged irregularities within the 2016 recruitment course of carried out by the WBSSC during which 2.3 million candidates appeared for twenty-four,640 posts and a complete of 25,753 appointment letters had been issued in 2016. Former West Bengal training minister Partha Chatterjee and TMC lawmakers Manik Bhattacharya and Jiban Krishna Saha are among the many accused being probed within the recruitment case.