Big Blow To Trinamool, 25,000 Bengal Teachers Fired, Told To Return Salary :::::: Namo's Gujarat has Moditva shining .... all around :::: BJP's first win before voting in western state, party candidate gets walkover in Surat

The ruling BJP has opened its account in the new Lok Sabha by bagging the prestigious Surat seat 'uncontested' in Narendra Modi's Gujarat.

BJP's Surat Lok Sabha candidate Mukesh Dalal won the seat unopposed with all opponents now out of the fray. The nomination of Congress candidate was rejected. 

Congratulating Dalal, Gujarat BJP chief CR Paatil said, "Congratulations and best wishes to Mukesh Dalal, candidate for Surat Lok Sabha seat, for being elected unopposed."

Big Blow To Trinamool, 25,000 Bengal Teachers Fired, Told To Return Salary

As many as 25,753 appointees are set to lose their jobs and will be asked to return their salaries along with 12% interest.  

In a big setback to the Mamata Banerjee government, the Calcutta High Court has cancelled the 2016 recruitment process for government-sponsored and aided schools. As many as 25,753 appointees are set to lose their jobs and will be asked to return their salaries along with 12% interest, according to the order.

A division bench of Justices Debangsu Basak and Md Shabbar Rashidi said the school teachers recruited illegally after submitting blank OMR sheets must return their salaries within four weeks. District magistrates have been tasked with collecting the money from these teachers.

The court has made an exception in its order, ensuring that one of the appointees, Soma Das who is undergoing cancer treatment, retains her job on humanitarian grounds.

The bench, formed on a Supreme Court direction, has also ordered the CBI to further probe the appointment process and submit a report within three months. It has also asked the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) to begin a fresh appointment process.

WBSSC chairman Siddharth Majumder has said they will challenge the high court order in the Supreme Court.

Several Trinamool leaders, including former education minister Partha Chatterjee, and former officials are in jail in connection with the teacher recruitment case.

Reacting to the order, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said BJP leaders are "influencing the judiciary and the judgments".

Referring to BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari's prediction last week of a political "explosion", she said, "He predicted an explosion. What is the explosion? Snatching the jobs of 26,000 people and pushing them towards death. How did they know what the court will rule if they did not write the judgment?"