The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday staged a protest outside the State Assembly over extra teachers’ recruitment drive passed by the state cabinet.
West Bengal’s Leader of Opposition (LoP) Suvendu Adhikari said that the current cabinet led by Mamata Banerjee should tender their apology.
He said, “It’s a big scam. This cabinet, sworn in under the Constitution, recommended in Calcutta High Court through a cabinet note that non-qualified persons should be accommodated in recruitment. Mamata Banerjee and her cabinet should go behind the bars.”
BJP MLA Agnimitra Paul too accused the ruling party TMC and said that State Government planned that a non-qualified person who will be sacked, would be appointed to these posts.
“Excess posts were created in Education Department. State Government planned that non-qualified persons who will be sacked, will be appointed to these posts. Education Secretary revealed this before the Court. We demand that the cabinet be arrested as they’re doing corruption,” Agnimitra Paul said.
Notably, in an interim order, the Supreme Court on Friday stayed the Calcutta HC order, directing the CBI to start an inquiry into the source of an application in connection with alleged irregularities in appointment of teachers through the WB Central School Service Commission.
