Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], April 7 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party leader and veteran actor Mithun Chakraborty blamed the West Bengal government after the Supreme Court upheld the Calcutta HC order to cancel the appointment of over 25,000 staff in Bengal schools by the School Service Commission (SSC) in 2016.

They (state government) will hold a meeting with teachers, it is their matter, but the Supreme Court has given the order, how can you change it? Only the TMC government should be blamed for this, everything has happened because of them. Everyone wants change in Bengal. Now let's see what happens,' Chakraborty told ANI on Sunday.

Meanwhile, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee will meet the teachers who lost their jobs after the Supreme Court upheld the Calcutta High Court order to cancel the appointment of over 25,000 staff in Bengal schools by the School Service Commission (SSC) in 2016.

Outside the venue of the meeting, a teacher, Yasmin Parveen, said that he had hopes for the West Bengal CM.

'We have hopes from the CM. We fulfilled all the procedures to get the job. After being employed for 7 years, we are now unemployed. We need nothing but our jobs back,' Parveen said.

Earlier on Thursday, the Supreme Court upheld the Calcutta High Court's decision to quash the recruitment of more than 25,000 teachers and non-teaching staff by the West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC) in 2016 for the state-run and aided schools.

The bench of Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar found that the West Bengal SSC's selection process was based on large-scale manipulations and fraud.

'In our opinion, this is a case wherein the entire selection process has been vitiated and tainted beyond resolution. Manipulations and frauds on a large scale, coupled with the attempted cover-up, have dented the selection process beyond repair and partial redemption. The credibility and legitimacy of the selection are denuded', the apex court bench stated in its judgement.

The top court's verdict came on a petition filed by the West Bengal government that challenged an April 2022 order of the Calcutta High Court, which had cancelled the recruitment of more than 25,000 teachers and other staff for state-run and aided schools. The top court had reserved its verdict in the matter on February 10. (ANI)