Bangla → English transcript

To all the honorable dignitaries present, a very good

evening, and I will say a few words. My predecessor

speaker said, "Has nothing happened in West Bengal?"

Yes, it has. Cattle have been stolen, sand has been stolen,

merit has been stolen, the jobs of the deserving have been stolen.

You tell me, in these 15 years, how many recruitments have you done

fairly?

How many recruitments have you done that the Supreme Court and High Court

haven't scrutinized?

Can you say?

Not even one. Day after day, at night, we

cried. The deserving have been on the streets, kicked.

Those who say that teachers are the backbone of the nation, on those

teachers' backbones, your government, the thief and corrupt

government, has kicked. On the soil of Vidyasagar, this is an utter

shame. And crying, one day on ABP Ananda,

I said that you will have to answer

for this injustice. The people of Bengal will recover it with interest. The people of

Bengal have recovered it. Your leaders and ministers, the villages

The Panchayat chief, deputy chief, and members, and their mansions.

And those of us who, in Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics,

MA in English, B.Ed, M.Sc, Ph.D, and other degrees,

left our jobs to be near our homes, in our own state,

to serve, and for the children of our own village,

chose the teaching profession to educate them,

was that wrong of us?

You have made an effort to mix rice and pebbles

together. Listen to me, you have spoken a lot.

Listen to what I have to say, let me finish. You are saying

that... today's motion was about aspiration, but you didn't read

the motion. Aspiration is not that this will happen again.

If it were about corruption, then we would have discussed it.

No, no, listen, I have heard enough from you. Let me

speak. You... no, no, what is the motion?

If I do not know history, how will I determine

the future?

The things you have done, I do not know if my

Whether the job exists or not, I don't know. Who is

responsible for that?

You are. Shouldn't I question you?

I have my salary up to August. 19,000 qualified

teachers and school staff have salaries only up to August.

They don't know about their jobs. What wrong did they

do? Your worthless, incompetent

thief government has messed things up. What did you open at every corner of Kolkata?

Sufal Bangla? But the people of Bengal didn't know

that in this Sufal Bangla showcase event, you would sell the jobs of talented,

qualified candidates in exchange for crores of rupees.

A worthless, thief, corrupt government. First, you

must take responsibility, and only then will I expect

and make demands of the new government. Don't say a single word. Don't say

anything. I lost my father at a very young age.

Thousands of young men like me struggle

and fight from different corners of rural Bengal.

They have risen up, choosing only the teaching profession,

Others have done PhDs. In Chemistry, in Physics,

In Mathematics. Did they do anything wrong?

By choosing this profession, you are delivering grand dialogues

sitting on the stage?

It doesn't cause you any trouble. The responsibility of my family,

who will take it?

Who will take responsibility for us, these 19,000 qualified ones?

I will speak. You must let me speak. You are saying you didn't do

anything. Because of your misdeeds, Prashanta Sir,

Subal Sir, they are no longer in this world. Why?

They died. Many are in depression… If you go and check,

you'll see. There is a crowd at the psychologist's, they are on the verge

of going mad. Of course we will present our demands to them.

But why did you do something like this to us,

won't we demand an explanation from you for that?

Why did you kick me?

Why did you use the police to try and damage our colleagues' eyes

outside Bikash Bhavan?

Won't we question you?

You have suffered the punishment for his sins. And you

must take responsibility for this. Do you know what is the biggest

damage you have done?

The education system on which the children of poor families of Bengal

depend, that education, education

system you have destroyed. You have arranged

to distribute books, arranged to distribute shoes,

arranged to distribute bicycles, but

you did not arrange to provide teachers. And what have you done?

to arrange to send unqualified people to schools in exchange for money.

You did. You will not be spared. No

mercy will be shown to you. The pain we cry over every night,

how many people, how many teachers are taking depression medication,

on the verge of going mad, will you not take responsibility for that?

Them, once again, for a second time,

you made them sit for exams, teachers of 40, 45, 50

years old?

Aren't you ashamed?

If they do not pass, they again their

Who will take responsibility for the children and their families?

You snatched away my job, you kicked me,

the police are rubbing my back,

In Kolkata, you police, you are worthless,

dirty police, party slaves. You took me to lockup,

filed cases against us, filed false, fake cases.

Me, us... I don't know, my daughter

asked me, 'Dad, will you go to school

or not?' I couldn't answer. Whether I will go to school

or not, I don't know my status. Whether my

job exists or not. You won't understand this pain.

You have messed everything up. You have left us in such a state

that, to the new government that has come,

we would ask for a solution, we cannot even understand

what we want from you. To save the unqualified,

you have sacrificed the qualified.

Your Chief Minister, leader said 'long live' to this

B, C, D plans. Where did those A, B, C, D

plans go?

Our appeal to the new government is, regarding the injustice done to the deserving candidates,

whose OMR sheets, after a lot of stalling,

you have finally released. There was a court order two years ago

to publish those OMR sheets. Those

OMR sheets you published on the 9th of May.

You published them on the night of the oath-taking ceremony, I welcome this.

And the initiatives that the Chief Minister has taken,

the initiatives she has taken, as a teacher and

on behalf of all the deserving teachers who lost their jobs and the educated people of Bengal,

as their representative, I say, I welcome the Chief Minister's

plan for transparent recruitment, and this is how it should be.

But along with that, I fold my hands and make

an appeal to you, that those 45, 50, 48 years old

teachers and school staff who have lost their jobs,

by being sympathetic to them, their jobs...

Please make arrangements to restore them. The

OMR sheets that you have retrieved, based on those OMRs,

please segregate us and, before the Supreme Court,

through legal means, to restore our jobs,

please make arrangements.