The Maharashtra Students Union (MASU) and the advocate representing it before the apex court has punctured holes in the affidavit submitted by deputy education officer Sandeep Sangave on behalf of the state of Maharashtra in the matter of the BMC freezing the recruitment of 253 teachers to civic primary and secondary schools, as the candidates had not done their schooling in English medium. MASU stated that the 191-page affidavit shows the right hand of the government doesn’t know what the left hand is doing.

The young job aspirants—who were willing to work as probationary assistant school teachers in primary and secondary civic-run schools in Mumbai—were rejected by the BMC education department in 2019. MASU earlier this year met with Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, who directed civic chief Iqbal Singh Chahal to intervene, but when all efforts failed, the MASU moved the Supreme Court.