The CPI (M) state secretariat has strongly condemned the statement made by BJP spokespersons Subrata Chakraborty and Nabendu Bhattacharjee attributing the naked police assault on peaceful sit-in strike of the retrenched 10,323 teachers in front of the City Centre on January 27. In a statement the CPI (M) state secretariat described the statement of the BJP spokespersons as ‘totally false, baseless and malicious” . Speaking on the issue highly placed sources in the party said that the left front had arranged alternative jobs for the 10,323 teachers by creating 13 thousand non-teaching posts but before the recruitment process could be initiated a senior BJP leader who is currently outside the state took Debasish Paul Chowdhury of Charilam area to Delhi to file a contempt petition in the supreme court to thwart the process of recruitment to non-teaching posts . Since the assembly election was approaching fast there was nothing the left front could do to rehabilitate the teachers.
“But what about the BJP ? Before the assembly election BJP had promised in vision document to resolve the problem of livelihood of 10,323 teachers from a humanitarian view and two and half years later the chief minister himself promised to resolve the problem within two months in October last year but did nothing ; it was only after the two month period had ended that the retrenched teachers launched their sit-in most peacefully but the government launched a brutal police assault on a most peaceful and democratic movement and perpetrated untold atrocities on them; now they are blaming the CPI (M) but no man or woman of the state will believe this myth” said highly placed sources in the CPI (M).
