Kolkata, Hours after being removed from the post of party state general secretary, senior TMC leader Kunal Ghosh on Wednesday claimed that the party was aware of the school recruitment scam even before the 2021 assembly elections.
Ghosh's damaging statement, considered close to TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, comes amid the ongoing Lok Sabha elections, as the SSC scam has become a significant issue in the elections.
Ghosh was removed from the post hours after sharing the stage with a BJP Lok Sabha candidate and praising him.
In an interview to a Bengali news channel, he said, “The party was well aware that there was large-scale corruption and extortion in exchange for jobs in the school education department. The party was aware of this even before the 2021 assembly elections. ABP Anand.
Ghosh, who is demanding greater prominence for the next generation of leaders and is at odds with older leaders in the TMC, said Partha Chatterjee was transferred from the education to the industries department due to information about massive corruption. Was. was to be done. Ministry after the party returns to power for the third consecutive time in 2021.,
Ghosh's comments come a week after the Calcutta High Court through an order declared the recruitment process of State Level Selection Test-2016 (SLST) in government-sponsored and aided schools in West Bengal as "null and void". Cancel all appointments made. ,
After the court order, about 26,000 people lost their jobs. The TM leadership had said that the party was not aware of the scam until Chatterjee's arrest in 2022. TMC leader Partha Chatterjee was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in July 2022 for his alleged involvement in the SSC scam. After his arrest, Chatterjee was shown the door by the party. He was also removed from the state cabinet.
Several TMC leaders and TMC MLAs Manik Bhattacharya and Jeevan Krishna Saha were arrested by the CBI for their alleged involvement in the scam.
Ghosh's damaging statement, considered close to TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, comes amid the ongoing Lok Sabha elections, as the SSC scam has become a significant issue in the elections.
Ghosh was removed from the post hours after sharing the stage with a BJP Lok Sabha candidate and praising him.
In an interview to a Bengali news channel, he said, “The party was well aware that there was large-scale corruption and extortion in exchange for jobs in the school education department. The party was aware of this even before the 2021 assembly elections. ABP Anand.
Ghosh, who is demanding greater prominence for the next generation of leaders and is at odds with older leaders in the TMC, said Partha Chatterjee was transferred from the education to the industries department due to information about massive corruption. Was. was to be done. Ministry after the party returns to power for the third consecutive time in 2021.,
Ghosh's comments come a week after the Calcutta High Court through an order declared the recruitment process of State Level Selection Test-2016 (SLST) in government-sponsored and aided schools in West Bengal as "null and void". Cancel all appointments made. ,
After the court order, about 26,000 people lost their jobs. The TM leadership had said that the party was not aware of the scam until Chatterjee's arrest in 2022. TMC leader Partha Chatterjee was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in July 2022 for his alleged involvement in the SSC scam. After his arrest, Chatterjee was shown the door by the party. He was also removed from the state cabinet.
Several TMC leaders and TMC MLAs Manik Bhattacharya and Jeevan Krishna Saha were arrested by the CBI for their alleged involvement in the scam.
