By Dipankar Bhattacharya
The startling restoration of greater than fifty crore rupees in money and gold from two flats belonging to an actress and reportedly an in depth aide to the now dropped TMC minister Partha Chatterjee has as soon as once more put the Mamata Banerjee authorities of West Bengal within the dock. The restoration of the money and the arrest of the minister have occurred within the wake of the Calcutta Excessive Court docket judgement ordering a CBI probe into the huge irregularities and brazen manipulation within the College Service Fee recruitment course of in West Bengal. And behind this court docket verdict lies the protracted wrestle of the disadvantaged and betrayed candidates. Whereas the dominant media protection of the difficulty now revolves across the arrested minister and his associates, we should focus to begin with on securing justice for the disadvantaged would-be academics who’ve been the direct victims of this rip-off.
Six years in the past, the College Service Fee of West Bengal had carried out a State Stage Choice Check for recruitment of academics for lessons 9-10 and 11-12. The outcomes revealed in November 2017 and March 2018 surprisingly didn’t reveal the respective rating and ranks of all candidates, solely letting candidates know if that they had handed or not. The ranks have been later revealed beneath stress from the Court docket, however recruitments didn’t adjust to the benefit record. It turned out that nicely related people, daughter of considered one of an accused minister Paresh Adhikari, to say only one instance, obtained jobs even after not qualifying within the benefit record. On February 28, 2019, disadvantaged candidates launched an indefinite protest quick on the Kolkata Press Membership grounds and thus started the protracted motion towards the SSC recruitment rip-off.
A month into the protest quick motion, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee after which schooling minister Partha Chatterjee had met the protesters and warranted them to appropriate all anomalies and guarantee immediate recruitment of all based on the benefit record. A committee was shaped and the quick was withdrawn on 28 March. However the disadvantaged candidates have been in for an additional shock once they discovered the federal government had gone again on the reassurance with yet one more spherical of selective recruitment. Protests resumed, as did the authorized battle, and the motion continued regardless of police repression, administrative obstacles and disruption brought on by the pandemic and Meeting elections. It’s this decided relentless wrestle of deserving however disadvantaged youth which uncovered what the Excessive Court docket described as ‘tip of the iceberg’.
The revelations have reignited the favored discontent in West Bengal towards the TMC misrule. The BJP clearly appears to have found an enormous alternative to fish within the troubled waters of West Bengal. After Maharashtra, West Bengal and neighbouring Jharkhand are understandably favorite targets for the BJP’s power-grabbing Operation Lotus marketing campaign. Three Congress MLAs of Jharkhand have already been caught travelling in a cash-laden automotive in Howrah District at the same time as fim star turned BJP model ambassador Mithun Chakraborty claims to be in contact with a minimum of thirty-eight TMC legislators. Whereas the dominant TRP-hunting media has found a goldmine of gossip and sensation and the BJP is busy with its horse-trading sport plan, the youth motion for jobs and justice has to carry on to its agenda and the Left should prolong full help to this nice battle. The CM is but to carry any open dialogue with the protesters, however TMC chief Abhishek Banerjee has initiated talks with a choose delegation of protesters thereby creating critical doubt in regards to the authorities’s plans.
Recruitment scams depriving deserving job aspirants and admission scams denying greater schooling alternatives to deserving college students have turn into a sordid actuality in in the present day’s India. In BJP-ruled states such scams are being systematically hushed up and agitations crushed with brute power. The notorious Vyapam rip-off of Madhya Pradesh is probably the most stunning instance the place scores of whistle-blowers and witnesses have been bodily got rid of to suppress the pursuit of justice. Credit score goes to the agitating youth and justice-loving residents of West Bengal for having uncovered the rot within the recruitment course of and led the motion for justice to the current juncture. All help ought to now be prolonged to the agitating youth of West Bengal to safe an emphatic victory over this sordid rip-off and systematic subversion of the rights and goals of younger Bengal. (IPA Service)
The author is the final secretary of CPI(ML) Liberation
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