West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Wednesday criticised Defence Minister Rajnath Singh for asserting that nobody in the world can stop the implementation of the CAA.
She also remarked that Singh now appeared reliant on PM Narendra Modi’s favour.
“You are surviving at the mercy of Modi. You are saluting Modi daily to save your chair. You or Nitin Gadkari could have been the PM today. There would have been no problem… at least there would have been a gentleman in the chair who knows minimum courtesy,” she said while speaking at an election rally for the party’s candidate for Durgapur-Bardhaman Lok Sabha constituency Kirti Azad.
Singh while addressing an election rally in Murshidabad on Sunday had said no power in the world would be able to stop the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).
Addressing a public meeting at Ausgram in Birbhum district, the TMC supremo also said that the Calcutta High Court had become a ‘tirtha kendra’ (pilgrimage site) for the BJP.
On Monday, the Calcutta High Court cancelled the appointment of 25,753 teachers and non-teaching staff made through the State Level Selection Test (SLST) 2016 in West Bengal government-sponsored and aided schools.
Banerjee said it is due to the recent court order that her government was not able to provide jobs to the state’s youth.
“The BJP has no other work but to move the High Court against the state government. They have taken away the jobs of school teachers. Where will these 26,000 youth go? Will schools in West Bengal be closed? I have about 10 lakh vacant jobs but it is due to the court orders that I cannot give them to the youths. It is doing whatever the BJP is saying,” she said.
“I don’t interfere in a department’s procedure of recruitment. I don’t have a say in everything. But the Court has become a tirtha kendra for the BJP. Bail is being granted to criminals and people accused of murder. Is this even a law? I will not talk about judges but I have the full right to talk about the judgments. If there are faults then they would be subjected to scrutiny but how were the 26,000 jobs cancelled? Does it look like a joke?” she asked.