Kolkata/IBNS, April 10 -- West Bengal government job losers on Thursday held a massive rally in downtown Kolkata protesting against an assault on them by police during an agitation in Kasba a day ago.

The protesters held the rally from Sealdah to Esplanade raising their voices against the Mamata Banerjee government, which is accused of corruption in a section of the recruitment process of almost 26,000 teaching and non-teaching staff in 2016.

Police resorted to a lathi charge to disperse a large number of protesting teachers and non-teaching staff members, who recently lost their jobs following a Supreme Court order, when they were demonstrating outside the office of the district inspector of schools in the Kasba area of Kolkata on Wedn...