Well-known recruitment scams during the Left Front rule
In 1986, the CPI(M)’s Sujan Chakraborty’s wife Mili Chakraborty joined Dinabandhu Andrews College in Garia as a lower division clerk on the recommendation of her husband’s party. In 2021, she retired with a basic pay of Rs 55,000 and is now a pensioner, all courtesy the CPI(M).
In 1992, Dr Ashish Pal complained about a person being appointed as a professor despite ranking below him in the College Service Commission (CSC) examination. In 2012, during the Trinamool Congress regime, 17 years after filing a case in the Calcutta High Court, Dr Pal finally got a job.
Manisha Mukherjee did not have any qualifications, but due to her closeness to a ‘top’ CPI(M) leader, got a job as an assistant controller of examinations in Calcutta University.
She suddenly disappeared in the mid-1990s, which her mother later reported. It is said that this was her ‘punishment’ for getting to know about the numerous corrupt activities of this ‘top’ CPI(M) leader. Even today, no one knows whether Manisha is alive at all.
In 2009, Prof Sabera Khatun became the victim of a conspiracy by Left Front leaders and her marks in the CSC recruitment examination sheet were reduced.
After the Buddhadeb Bhattacharya government gave false information even in reply to her RTI application, she filed a case in the Calcutta High Court. Finally, in 2012, got a job at TDB College in Raniganj.
In 2012, a bench of Justice Harish Tandon of the Calcutta High Court ordered the Trinamool government to cancel the jobs of 2,200 teachers appointed in undivided Medinipur district in 1996, during the Left era. The judge ruled that all of them were ineligible for the jobs.
