Hours after the Supreme Courtroom of India delivered a damning verdict on the West Bengal authorities’s dealing with of academics’ recruitment, former Trinamool Congress (TMC) lawmaker Jawhar Sircar has spoken out towards the occasion, citing corruption and authoritarianism as the explanations for his departure.
Sircar, a former bureaucrat-turned-politician, resigned from his place as a Rajya Sabha member in 2024. His exit from the occasion, he clarified, was pushed by what he described as an “an excessive amount of” corruption throughout the organisation.
“Folks ask why I resigned from TMC. Would my conscience enable me to be a part of such rot?” Sircar wrote in a social media submit on X (previously Twitter). “I joined TMC as a result of it’s the hardest fighter towards the communal, fascist BJP. However I left as a result of TMC’s corruption and authoritarianism have been getting too unhealthy.”
His remarks come within the wake of a Supreme Courtroom ruling that upheld a Calcutta Excessive Courtroom resolution to cancel over 25,000 educating and non-teaching positions. The appointments, made below the West Bengal College Service Fee, have been deemed to be tainted by “manipulation and fraud,” the court docket mentioned.
Sircar, a retired Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer who beforehand served because the Chief Govt Officer of India’s public broadcaster, Prasar Bharati, had joined TMC in 2021, anticipating to contribute to its struggle towards the ruling Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) on the nationwide stage. However his tenure within the occasion was marked by rising disillusionment.
In 2024, he publicly distanced himself from the occasion following a health care provider’s rape and homicide at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical School. In an interview with The Indian Categorical, Sircar had mentioned, “The RG Kar case requires a large-scale instant rectification. That rectification you (Mamata Banerjee) can do. Course rectification, picture rectification… The docs, go and discuss to them instantly.” He had additionally mentioned that he had suggested Banerjee to personally intervene with the protesting junior docs, however his suggestions have been ignored.
In an open letter addressed to the Bengal CM, Sircar had beforehand raised issues over corruption, alleging that when he identified proof of wrongdoing involving former Training Minister Partha Chatterjee, he confronted hostility from TMC management. Chatterjee was later arrested in a high-profile corruption case associated to highschool appointments.
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The Supreme Courtroom ruling now additional intensifies scrutiny on the Mamata Banerjee authorities, which has lengthy positioned itself as a defender of democratic values towards the BJP’s rising affect in India. The judgment by a bench led by Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice PV Sanjay Kumar discovered that the hiring course of had been deeply compromised by fraudulent practices.
For Sircar, the ruling vindicates his resolution to go away.