‘Where is the state govt’s list of genuine teachers?’: West Bengal BJP leadership targets Mamata as party workers protest
Minutes after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee held a meeting on Monday with teachers who lost their jobs after a Supreme Court ruling, the Opposition BJP sharply criticised her, saying that she is “misleading” the candidates.State BJP leadership questioned the Chief Minister on why her government could not provide the Supreme Court with a list of teachers who were “genuine” and those who were “tainted”.
On April 3, the SC nullified over 25,000 school jobs in West Bengal, while upholding a Calcutta High Court Order on an alleged school jobs scam case which is being probed by the CBI. The apex court termed the 2016 School Service Commission (SSC) recruitment process as “vitiated and tainted by fraud”.
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