Job scam litigant pads up to face former judge in Tamluk
Times of India | 14 April 2024
Kolkata: One of the first job aspirants who had moved Calcutta High Court, asking for a stay on the upper primary recruitment process in 2016, will contest the Lok Sabha elections with a ISF ticket from Tamluk against the judge who had heard the case.
Mahiuddin Ahmed alias Mahi, a resident of Murshidabad, had moved the then bench of Justice Abhijit Ganguly.It led to the first stay order issued by the high court on the recruitment process. Ganguly is the BJP candidate from Tamluk.
Mahi is one of the four ISF candidates whose names were announced by the party on Saturday. Among others, Shajahan Biswas, the brother of Suti MLA Emani Biswas, has been nominated as a candidate from Jangipur. The party has chosen Dipak Majumdar to contest from Bongaon. Afroza Khatun (Mandal) has been nominated from Krishnanagar.
Mahi also holds another identity, claimed ISF insiders. He was the president of the platform of the upper primary job aspirants that had launched an agitation in the heart of Esplanade. When asked why he entered the electoral fray, Mahi said: “I decided to join politics to raise the issues of the deprived.” When asked if ISF’s decision to field him against the former judge was a coincidence or a well-thought-out move, he responded: “Our recruitment is presently stuck due to legal hurdles. Many have also used us.”
The ISF candidate vehemently denied that his presence would benefit the BJP candidate. “I solely represent job aspirants and the unemployed in Bengal, without any other connections or equations with anyone,” he claimed.
While Trinamool has fielded their IT cell head Debangshu Bhattacharya, the Left Front has nominated their young face, lawyer Sayan Bandyopadhyay, from Tamluk.