TMC chief Kunal Ghosh. File
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After his removing from the publish of the TMC’s West Bengal general secretary, Kunal Ghosh claimed that the get together was aware of the school recruitment scam even before the 2021 Assembly polls.
The damaging assertion from Mr. Ghosh, thought-about near TMC nationwide basic secretary Abhishek Banerjee, got here amidst the continuing Lok Sabha elections, because the SSC scam has escalated into a big challenge within the polls.
Mr. Ghosh was faraway from the publish hours after he shared a stage with a BJP Lok Sabha candidate and praised him on Wednesday.
“The party was well aware of the fact that large-scale corruption and extortion in lieu of jobs was taking place in the school education department. The party was aware of it even before the 2021 Assembly polls,” he stated in an interview with Bengali information channel ABP Ananda.
Mr. Ghosh, who has been looking for extra prominence for next-generation leaders and has been at loggerheads with the previous guards within the TMC, stated it was because of this “information about large-scale corruption that Partha Chatterjee was shifted to the industry department from the education ministry after the party returned to power for the third consecutive term in 2021.
Mr. Ghosh’s remarks got here per week after the Calcutta High Court declared the recruitment course of of the State Level Selection Test-2016 (SLST) in West Bengal government-sponsored and aided colleges as “null and void,” ordering the cancellation of all appointments made by way of it.
Around 26,000 individuals have misplaced jobs following the court docket order. The TMC management had maintained that the get together was not aware of the scam till the arrest of Chatterjee happened in 2022.
TMC chief Partha Chatterjee was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in July 2022 for his alleged involvement within the SSC scam. Chatterjee was proven the door by the get together following his arrest. He was additionally faraway from the State Cabinet.
Several TMC leaders and TMC MLA Manik Bhattacharya and Jiban Krishna Saha had been arrested by the CBI for his or her alleged involvement within the scam.