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Paschim Medinipur: Dilip Ghosh, the leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), called the TMC-led West Bengal government an “unpopular” one on Monday in response to the continuing SSC teachers’ protest. Speaking to the media report, Ghosh emphasized that the time has come for a change in leadership and said that people are threatened when they criticize the administration.

He went on to say that if teachers are demonstrating in the streets, it will raise concerns about the pupils’ future.

“This administration has lost support. They’re not making choices. They feel intimidated when others talk negatively about them. The moment has come for the government to go. Today, the educators who ought to be teaching in the classrooms are demonstrating in the streets. Who will consider the Bengali children’s future”? Ghosh said”.

Teachers are demonstrating outside Bikash Bhawan in Kolkata against the West Bengal government, headed by Mamata Banerjee, for laying off 26,000 of them in relation to the SSC recruiting scandal.

The protest comes after the Supreme Court ruled that the whole nomination process was corrupted.

Teachers whose appointments were canceled because of anomalies in the recruiting process were permitted to remain in their positions until the completion of a new selection procedure by the Supreme Court. Only instructors whose appointments were “untainted” are eligible for the aforementioned relief, according to a bench headed by CJI Sanjiv Khanna.

Because there are more “tainted” applicants in Groups C and D, the highest court also denied relief to allow the teaching staff in those groups to maintain their employment.

The West Bengal government and the WB Staff Selection Commission were also ordered by the top court to publish job openings for new assistant teacher hires by May 31 and to finish the full procedure by December 31.

The Supreme Court made its ruling, stating that the students should not be negatively impacted by the court’s order that was issued in response to the 2016 recruiting process’s flaws.

In response to the Supreme Court’s decision on the SSC recruitment, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on April 17 that the issue will be settled within a year.

“The instructors are permitted to stay in their positions until December 2025 by the Supreme Court. We were concerned about how they would get their pay. It was previously stated that wages could not be paid. We had promised them there would be no problems. We still have till December. The West Bengal chief minister declared that the issue will be settled this year.