India, April 8 -- Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday wrote to President Droupadi Murmu seeking her intervention in ensuring that candidates selected through fair means are allowed to continue as teachers in West Bengal.

Last Thursday, the Supreme Court set aside the 25,000 teacher recruitments carried out in 2016 by the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC), in connection with the ongoing investigation into the teacher recruitment case.

"Since the verdict, the teachers, as well as staff who stand to be terminated, have almost given up hope of any redressal," Gandhi wrote in his letter dated April 7.

The leader of the opposition in Lok Sabha said that a delegation from the body of affected teachers, Shikshak Shikshika Adhik...