News Mania Desk/ Piyal Chatterjee / 10th September 2024
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, the general secretary of the Congress, attacked the BJP on Tuesday, September 10, over the teachers recruitment case. She claimed that the BJP was hurting young people from both reserved and unreserved categories on a social, economic, and psychological level by engaging in a “double game” with them.
Her comments coincide with the Supreme Court’s stay of an Allahabad High Court decision directing the Uttar Pradesh government to create a new list of candidates for the state’s 69,000 assistant teacher positions.
Additionally, the top court postponed the High Court’s decision to throw out the assistant teacher selection lists—which contained 6,800 candidates—that the state authorities had released in June 2020 and January 2022.
“The anti-youth and anti-social justice attitude adopted by the BJP in the matter of recruitment of 69,000 teachers in UP is shocking. By playing a double game, the youth from both reserved and unreserved categories are being harmed socially, economically and mentally,” she said in a post in Hindi on X.
“First, the reservation scam in the recruitment process took away the rights of hundreds of Dalit and backward candidates. And even now the BJP’s intention is to delay and misdirect social justice. This injustice must stop,” she said.
A bench made up of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud, Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra, as well as others, including the secretary of the UP Basic Education Board, issued notices to the state government and others regarding a plea filed by Ravi Kumar Saxena and 51 others, while also delaying the high court’s decision.
The top court ordered the parties’ attorneys to provide brief written comments, no more than seven pages, and declared that it will have a final hearing in the case. The bench declared that it will schedule the plea hearing for the week starting on September 23.
The state administration was previously ordered by the high court to create a new selection list in August in order to assign 69,000 assistant teachers to the state. The verdict was made by a division bench of the high court in response to ninety-five special appeals filed by Mahendra Pal and others against a single-judge ruling from March 13 of last year.
