CPM distances itself from Bikash stance on TET verdict
Times of India | 5 December 2025
Kolkata: CPM on Thursday distanced itself from senior advocate and party neta Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya's comments on Thursday, after the latter said that the Calcutta High Court division bench TET order that saved 32,000 teachers' jobs should be challenged in the Supreme Court.
"Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya is an advocate, he is the former mayor of Kolkata and a sensible gentleman. It is the call of a professional, and the party will not have any say in that," said CPM state secretary Md Salim
"We don't instruct a doctor on his patients, we don't instruct an auditor on his choice of clients. How can we advise an advocate on his professional call?" Salim asked.
Salim, however, did not shy away from alleging that there was corruption in the teacher recruitment process, and pointed fingers at Trinamool and BJP, saying corruption had "its roots in both the parties".
Pointing out that senior West Bengal Board of Primary Education officials had been jailed for corruption, Salim said: "If their crimes are established in the court, then there's no denying the fact that tainted candidates or chain of corruption got saved after the verdict. We can see the helplessness among the investigators now."