Prime Minister Narendra Modi with West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee. file | Photo Credit: PTI
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will attend a meeting convened by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on preparations for the G-20 summit in New Delhi on 5 December. India will formally launch it Chairmanship of G20 on 1 December and host the next summit in the capital in September 2023.
Ms Banerjee told reporters in the state assembly on Thursday that she would participate as the president of the Trinamool Congress. According to reports, there will be four events in West Bengal under this India’s G20 Presidency,
After visiting Delhi in the first week of December, the Chief Minister is likely to visit Meghalaya on 13 December. During her two-day visit to the northeastern state, Ms Banerjee is likely to attend public meetings to expand the party’s footprint in the state. State. Elections in Meghalaya are due in 2023 and Trinamool Congress general secretary Abhishek Banerjee is visiting the state.
This will be the Chief Minister’s first visit to Meghalaya.
Participating in the Question Hour of the state assembly, Ms Banerjee said whenever the state government tries to fill vacancies, some people move courts to create hurdles.
The Chief Minister said that the state government had planned to complete the recruitment process within three months, but all the money of the state was being spent in fighting court cases. He urged the judiciary to look into the matter.
The chief minister’s remarks came at a time when the Calcutta High Court is hearing several cases related to the recruitment scam in the state.
On Wednesday, the High Court directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe the identity of the person who filed the application before the court in order to ‘save persons appointed illegally’.
In September this year, applications were made before the court asking that supernumerary posts be created to accommodate those whose appointments were later found to be invalid, in order to avoid unemployment.
The state government challenged the order before a division bench on Thursday. The CBI is probing several irregularities in the recruitment scam, and half a dozen officials, including former state education minister Partha Chatterjee, are behind bars for their involvement in the scam.