He remained mum when asked repeatedly how the Opposition could be responsible when the appointment process was planned and executed entirely by the Yogi Adityanath government. (PTI)The Yogi Adityanath government was on Tuesday grappling with a second appointment controversy, involving 69,000 teachers, amid an already raging scandal over 25 school science teachers being recruited on the basis of forged BEd certificates in the name of “Anamika Shukla”. “One Rahul had complained in May that some people had demanded a bribe from him for a confirmed job as assistant teacher. “The Opposition parties, which are addicted to corruption, are trying to put a hurdle on our way by alleging a scam,” he said. Dwivedi went on to accuse the Opposition of “organising” both this controversy and the Anamika Shukla scandal to malign Adityanath.

Source: The Telegraph June 09, 2020 20:15 UTC