West Bengal School Job Case: Section of Teachers Who Lost Their Start Hunger Strike in Front of WBSSC Office in Kolkata (Watch Videos)
Kolkata, April 10: A hunger strike by a section of the job losers, including teaching and non-teaching staff, in state-run schools in West Bengal is underway in front of the West Bengal School Service Commission’s office at Salt Lake in Kolkata. The protesters are demanding that the state government and the commission segregate the “genuine” candidates from the “tainted” ones who secured jobs against money.
Notably, the Supreme Court last week upheld a previous order by a division bench of Calcutta High Court, cancelling the entire panel of 25,753 teaching and non-teaching jobs on the grounds that the state government and the commission failed to segregate the “genuine” candidates from the “tainted” ones. The strikers have also given a call to civil society to express solidarity to their hunger strike just as it did when several junior doctors last year went on a similar-hunger strike against the rape and murder of a junior woman doctor of state-run-R. G. Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata last year. West Bengal School Job Case: Teachers Start Relay Hunger Strike To Protest Job Loss Following Supreme Court’s Judgment, Police Action.
Before beginning the strike on Wednesday afternoon, a protester, Suman Biswas, said: “As long as the segregation is not done and the mirror images of the OMR sheets of all the candidates are made public, we will continue with our hunger strike. If the state government is serious about its commitment to protect the interest of the ‘genuine’ candidates, they should complete the segregation process at the earliest.” West Bengal School Jobs Case: Mamata Banerjee Doubts ‘Game’ Behind Verdict of Supreme Court Ordering Cancellation of 25,753 School Jobs.
Teachers Hit the Streets in Kolkata
#Teachers who were axed by #SC due to a corrupt recruitment process by WBSSC hits the streets protesting against the #WestBengal government. pic.twitter.com/u1vuXWtv7j
— Sreyashi Dey (@SreyashiDey) April 10, 2025
Protest Underway in Purulia
#WATCH | West Bengal: A large number of teachers in Purulia district locked the gates of Purulia District Education Department and protested in the wake of 26,000 teachers in Bengal schools losing their jobs following a Supreme Court order. pic.twitter.com/7Hqqx7MTb1
— ANI (@ANI) April 9, 2025
A number of BJP leaders, including party Lok Sabha member and former Calcutta High Court Judge Abhijit Gangopahyay and actors-turned-politicians, namely Rupa Ganguly and Rudranil Ghosh, reached the hunger-strike dais to express solidarity. The “genuine” job losers are also scheduled to bring a protest march on Thursday in Kolkata on this issue. “I request the common people and the members of the civil society to join the protest rally in large numbers,” said one of the protesters.
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