‘Mamata Didi Jail Jayengi’: BJP Slams TMC Over Recruitment Of Over 25,000 Workers In Bengal Colleges | India Information
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP) on Thursday launched a blistering assault on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, holding her accountable for large-scale corruption within the state’s college recruitment course of. In a press convention, BJP chief Sambit Patra asserted that accountability could be ensured below the rule of legislation and said that if the BJP got here to energy in West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee would face authorized repercussions.
“Didi jail jayengi, albat jayengi. Hindustan mai kanoon ka shasan hai. The day BJP kinds a authorities in Bengal, the complete power of the legislation might be introduced upon Mamata Banerjee,” he mentioned. The get together’s remarks got here a day after the Supreme Court docket upheld the Calcutta Excessive Court docket’s order cancelling the appointment of over 25,000 academics and non-teaching employees as a consequence of recruitment irregularities.
Addressing the press convention, BJP chief Sambit Patra alleged that Mamata Banerjee’s administration has institutionalised corruption and suppressed probes into the rip-off. “A number of days in the past, Mamata Banerjee went to Oxford and referred to as herself a tigress. However no tigress engages in corruption. The way in which her authorities has allowed corruption to flourish in Bengal, lakhs of individuals have suffered,” he mentioned.
Patra attacked CM Mamata Banerjee’s authorities and mentioned that the Supreme Court docket had itself mentioned that credibility and legitimacy had been denuded below her governance. “The Supreme Court docket, in its verdict delivered by Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar, discovered critical manipulation within the recruitment course of carried out via the Faculty Service Fee (SSC). The apex courtroom said that the complete choice course of was vitiated by manipulation and fraud. Credibility and legitimacy have been denuded,” said Patra.
“The Calcutta Excessive Court docket, in its April 22, 2024, ruling, had declared 25,780 recruitments invalid after discovering that OMR sheets have been tampered with and undeserving candidates have been chosen in alternate for bribes. The courtroom had additionally ordered a CBI probe into the rip-off,” he mentioned.
Patra additional attacked the Trinamool Congress (TMC) authorities for allegedly obstructing investigations, saying, “When the CBI started probing the rip-off, Mamata Banerjee and her get together leaders attacked the company to defend the corrupt.”
Questioning the silence of the opposition, Patra requested, “Had such critical allegations been made towards any NDA Chief Minister, Rahul Gandhi would have raised a storm in Parliament, calling it the ‘homicide of democracy.’ The place is he now? The place are the INDI Alliance leaders?”
Predicting authorized penalties for Banerjee, Patra declared, “Didi jail jayengi, albat jayengi. Hindustan mai kanoon ka shasan hai. The day BJP kinds a authorities in Bengal, the complete power of the legislation might be introduced upon Mamata Banerjee.”
The SSC recruitment rip-off is likely one of the most high-profile corruption instances in Bengal, with a number of arrests and allegations of bribes in job allocations. The BJP has vowed to proceed urgent for accountability, making corruption a central challenge in its political battle towards the TMC.
The Supreme Court docket on Thursday upheld the Calcutta Excessive Court docket’s resolution to quash the recruitment of greater than 25,000 academics and non-teaching employees by the West Bengal Faculty Service Fee (SSC) in 2016 for the state-run and aided faculties.
The bench of Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar discovered that the West Bengal SSC’s choice course of was based mostly on large-scale manipulations and fraud. “In our opinion, it is a case whereby the complete choice course of has been vitiated and tainted past decision. Manipulations and frauds on a big scale, coupled with the tried cover-up, have dented the choice course of past restore and partial redemption. The credibility and legitimacy of the choice are denuded”, the apex courtroom bench said in its judgement.
The apex courtroom discovered no motive to intrude with the course of the Excessive Court docket that the companies of “tainted” candidates have to be terminated, and they need to be required to refund any salaries/funds obtained.”Since their appointments have been the results of fraud, this quantities to dishonest. Subsequently, we see no justification to change this course”, the bench added.
The highest courtroom’s verdict got here on a petition filed by the West Bengal authorities difficult an April 2022 order of the Calcutta Excessive Court docket, which had cancelled the recruitment of greater than 25,000 academics and different employees for state-run and aided faculties. The highest courtroom reserved its verdict within the matter on February 10.
The Court docket additional clarified that as a result of the complete recruitment course of was vitiated, the candidates whose recruitment was “untainted” may also should be terminated. Nonetheless, such candidates is not going to should refund any funds made to them.
The highest courtroom granted liberty to “untainted” candidates to reapply to their earlier jobs of their respective state departments. In such instances, the courtroom said, they’ll obtain their beforehand held jobs of their respective departments.
As regards candidates whose appointments are cancelled however who usually are not labeled as “tainted” and have beforehand labored in several state authorities departments or autonomous our bodies, the Court docket said that such candidates can apply to return to their former positions.
