Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday mentioned corrective measures must be taken if “mistakes” have been dedicated within the recruitment course of however nobody must be terminated from providers as they’ve households to care for. Banerjee’s remark got here because the Calcutta High Court terminated the providers of 1000’s of people that have been appointed illegally as instructing and non-teaching workers at state-sponsored and state-aided faculties throughout West Bengal by means of manipulation within the recruitment course of.
“If I have made any mistake, you can slap me and I will not mind. I have not wronged anyone, knowingly. After I came to power, I have not taken away the jobs of CPI(M) cadres, but why are you doing this? You don’t have the ability to give a job, but you are snatching away people’s livelihoods,” she mentioned, apparently targetting CPI(M) MP Bikash Ranjan
Bhattacharya, a lawyer who was preventing many of those instances in courtroom. Urging the courtroom to rethink its choices to terminate the providers, Banerjee mentioned a re-examination can be thought of for such individuals.
“I will ask you to rethink. Even yesterday, two people died by suicide in Jalpaiguri. If someone else did something wrong, why will these people suffer? If someone loses his job suddenly, how will they look after their family? Give that person a chance. If needed, allow him to take another test. We will prepare another setup as per the court’s order,” she mentioned.
Banerjee was visibly emotional as she was talking on the difficulty whereas addressing the one hundred and fiftieth delivery anniversary celebrations of Sri Aurobindo on the Alipore Judges’ Court campus.
“Not everyone is a TMC cadre. A government employee can be a supporter of any political party. If any of them has done anything wrong, I will take action against them. I do not have any sympathy for them. But, we must see that those who got the jobs are not victimized,” she mentioned.
The ED and CBI have arrested former schooling minister Partha Chatterjee together with a number of top-rung schooling officers and senior TMC leaders as the 2 central businesses started probing the allegations of unlawful appointments made within the state’s faculties in change of crores for rupees.
Bhattacharya, the senior CPI(M) chief, mentioned that as a substitute of asking the courtroom to rethink its choice of terminating providers of undeserving candidates, Banerjee should step down taking duty for the entire fiasco.
“During the Left Front government, appointments were done following the due procedures. She has no power to take away any job,” he mentioned. Meanwhile, the BJP alleged that Banerjee was herself concerned within the irregularities. “The statement proves the chief minister’s involvement in the irregularities. Now, she is trying to save her face,” senior state BJP chief Rahul Sinha alleged.
Â
