West Bengal school jobs scam: Modi slams TMC for playing with youths’ future

Stating that the youths of West Bengal have suffered due to the "cut-and-commission" culture of the TMC, which is now "synonymous with scams", Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday (April 26) slammed the Mamata Banerjee-led party over the cancellation of around 26,000 jobs following a Calcutta High Court order nullifying the recruitment.

Addressing an election rally in Malda, PM Modi highlighted that the youths, who had taken loans to pay bribes to TMC leaders, are burdened by this situation. "The TMC indulges in scams for which the people of the state have to suffer. The party has been playing with the future of the youths of Bengal," he said.

HC cancels appointments

"The teacher recruitment scam snatched the livelihood of around 26,000 families," he said.

Earlier this week, the Calcutta High Court declared the recruitment process of the State Level Selection Test-2016 (SLST) in West Bengal government-sponsored and aided schools as "null and void," ordering the cancellation of all appointments made through it.

Giving a communal twist

"Under the TMC rule, only one thing exists – scams totalling thousands of crores. The culprit is TMC, but the entire state is forced to pay for its deception," he said.

Hitting out at the Congress and the TMC for spreading canards about CAA, Modi said the Citizenship (Amendment) Act "is about granting citizenship and not snatching it". “There is a competition of appeasement going on between these two parties. The Congress wants to grab your property, and the TMC is not uttering even a single word against this. The state government is working to settle Bangladeshi infiltrators in Bengal, and the Congress is talking about distributing your wealth among those," he said.

(With agency inputs)