KOLKATA, April 19 -- Advocates who fought for candidates victimised by Bengal's largest recruitment scam have accused the Mamata Banerjee government of flip-flopping on the issue after the Supreme Court upheld the Calcutta High Court judgment, which ordered the sacking of the entire panel of 26,000 teachers and non-teaching staff.

"The Mamata Banerjee government is continuously trying to mislead the people, especially those unfortunate individuals who lost their jobs because of the misdeeds of Trinamool Congress leaders who collected money in exchange for jobs," said senior advocate and CPI(M) Rajya Sabha MP Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharyya, who led the legal fight.

Advocates pointed out that, on one hand, the government has accepted the Sup...