The TMC charges job scams in West Bengal during the Left’s tenure

In order to gain access to government jobs during the Left’s 34-year rule in West Bengal, the state’s education minister, Bratya Basu, accused Left leaders of operating a fraud in the education department. The Communist Party of India (Marxist), or CPI(M), leaders were accused by the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal of conducting a scam in the education department during their 34-year rule in the state to enlist relatives in the government. At a news conference, state education minister Bratya Basu stated that he has been made aware of multiple suspected cases of these irregularities.

“We also discovered that under the Left Front’s rule in 2009–2010, the office of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) discovered 46,000 unauthorised hirings in the education department. We might need to look at those documents. Group-C and Group-D positions at colleges are not now governed by the College Service Commission as a result of the CPI(M). To hire their staff, they cut out the commission, he claimed.The attack happened at a time when the TMC is facing criticism over the suspicion that party leaders took part in the bribe-for-job scheme at the school education department. According to a specific allegation made by Basu, Mili Chakraborty, the wife of former CPI(M) member Sujan Chakraborty, was hired in 1987 as a “instrument keeper” at the physics lab of a government-sponsored institution in Kolkata despite having never taken a selection test. A copy of the joining letter, which the TMC also tweeted, was on exhibit by Basu.

I was unaware Sujan Chakraborty’s wife worked for a college until yesterday. She has not yet been able to provide evidence that she took any tests. 2021 saw her retirement. It indicates that she received pay from the Mamata Banerjee administration between 2011 and 2021. This cannot be ignored, said Basu. “I hold no resentment towards her. I’ve never even met her. Many of these recruitments lacked transparency. It is clear that many qualified individuals were overlooked,” Basu continued.