Bengal Jobs Scam: Mamata Banerjee Urges Court Not To Cancel Appointments
NDTV
West Bengal Jobs Scam: Urging the court to rethink its decisions to terminate the services, CM Mamata Banerjee said a re-examination can also be considered for such people.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said corrective measures should be taken if "mistakes" were committed in the recruitment process but no one should be terminated from services as they have families to take care of.
Ms Banerjee's comment came as the Calcutta High Court terminated the services of thousands of people who were appointed illegally as teaching and non-teaching staff at state-sponsored and state-aided schools across West Bengal through manipulation in the recruitment process.
"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 said, apparently targeting CPI(M) MP Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya, a lawyer who was fighting many of these cases in the court.
Urging the court to rethink its decisions to terminate the services, CM Banerjee said a re-examination can also be considered for such people.
