‘Bulldozing of dreams’ in 2-engine states: TMC fires jobs salvo at BJP
Times of India | 8 September 2025
Kolkata: With over 31,000 candidates from other states, including BJP-governed Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, coming to Bengal to take the SSC exams on Sunday, Trinamool lashed out at "double-engine
govts, where one engine bulldozes homes, the other bulldozes dreams".
Posting the video of an UP-based candidate, Trinamool trained guns on the
govt, highlighting how the state's youths have been "forced to leave their homes in search of survival as there are no jobs".
Using a video of the candidate speaking to a private news channel, TMC posted on X: "A student from UP appearing for the exams in Bengal tore into the farce of Yogi Adityanath's ‘bulldozer sarkar'. His words sting with truth: if the ‘nithalla' Yogi govt created jobs, youths wouldn't be forced to leave their homes in search of survival.
Instead of employment, UP's students get police batons; instead of a future, they get unemployment queues.
This is BJP's ‘double engine'."
On his X handle, TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh also pointed out how these candidates from various states were treated in Bengal. "None stopped them, none harassed them, none disrespected them. Did you get it?" he posted, along with the video of the UP candidate's media statements to stress "the reality".
TMC also took the cue to attack CPM on the issue.
In another cryptic post, Ghosh said: "Several candidates reached Bengal on Sunday to appear for the SSC exams, several from BJP-governed double engine states. Most are saying there are no jobs in their home state, exams are not being held, and the results are being delayed. So they have come here for their exams. Incidentally, none here has said that in Bengal only Bengalis can appear for the exams."
Bengal BJP general secretary Locket Chatterjee, however, did not find merit in these arguments. "Anyone is free to apply for any exam in any state. It is their personal choice. India is a country. If anyone believes they stand a better chance to crack any exam outside their state, they can. But it does not obliterate the fact that systemic lapses by Bengal govt led to 26,000 persons losing their jobs overnight. This is a historical first," she said.
Earlier, junior Union education minister Sukanta Majumdar said BJP wanted eligible teachers to retain jobs. He said: "The tainted list of 1,804 (later updated to 1,806) could well have been published earlier. Though we believe that this list is farcical, even this could have been brought out earlier. Then this difference between eligible and ineligible could have been made much before and jobs of those eligible could have been saved.