Hundreds of teachers affected by job cancellations in West Bengal protested for a third day outside the state Education Department headquarters. Their appointments were cancelled by the Supreme Court after it declared the 2016 recruitment process by the School Service Commission to be illegitimate and flawed. Teachers and other employees in large numbers have been asked to leave their posts due to the Supreme Court’s mandate.
About 1,000 teachers assembled in a vigil outside Bikash Bhavan for several hours on Friday night into Saturday morning. Officials kept watch within the protest perimeter, allowing the demonstration to continue peacefully. Teachers who have lost their jobs are urgently seeking judicial help from the state administration. They claim they should not be punished because of flaws inherent in a government process that they could not influence.
Mondal urged thousands of teachers and citizens to join him tomorrow at Bikash Bhavan, where he intends to press for a meeting with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
Suvendu Adhikari, a prominent leader of the opposition BJP, arrived Friday to pledge his party’s full support for the demonstrators. Adhikari condemned the TMC-led state government for being corrupt and assured that he would bring the matter to the fore at the forthcoming Assembly session.
Adhikari said that if the government tries to restrict any debates on this issue, the BJP will bring the Assembly proceedings to a halt. “It was not your fault that you lost your jobs,” Adhikari informed the protesters. “You have been sidelined by a system rigged with corruption. We will not rest until all of you have received what is rightfully yours.”
He added that BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar will join the protest, and he himself will sleep alongside the protesters to make a powerful statement.
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