Seven youths from Nadia district, associated with the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS), the RSS-controlled trade union, have accused one of the organisation’s Bengal committee secretaries of taking money from them by assuring jobs at the Kalyani-based All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).

In a joint petition submitted to Jalandhar Mahato, Bengal Prant Pracharak, they alleged how Gyanmohan Basak of Nadia’s Phulia, took money in exchange of fake job promises and appealed to him to give back the money that they had to borrow from money lenders at a high rate of interest.

The copy of the complaints has also been endorsed to three other top BMS leaders in the state with similar appeals.While the state BMS leadership has refused to react to the allegations, the accused leader Basak termed the complaint “fabricated” and aimed to malign him.

The seven youths, who said they were closely associated with Basak, stated in the complaint that they handed over their job applications in the prescribed format he had asked for along with the first installment of Rs 30,000 around a year ago.

Basak had assured them to hand over a receipt for the payment and told them to pay the second installment of Rs 70,000 after three months, they claimed.

“However, even after more than a year, he neither handed over the receipt for the first installment of money nor offered us any job so far”, said Subrata Sarkar, one of the complaints from Santipur’s Boalia.

Bijoy Sarkar of Phulia alleged: “Basak told us that two BJP MPs are in charge of affairs at AIIMS would arrange jobs for eligible youths associated with the BMS. So we agreed... But no job was offered though many associated with the BJP and Sangh families have jobs at AIIMS. We want our money back. Complaints of siphoning money from unemployed youths with fake job promises at AIIMS Kalyani by a section of local and state-level leaders have become a matter of embarrassment to the state BJP and Sangh Parivar leadership.

A BJP leader from Nadia has also recently lodged a complaint with Amit Shah accusing some local leaders of malpractices in recruitment at AIIMS.The CID has also recently begun a probe after a police complaint was registered against Union Minister of state for education Subhash Sarkar, BJP’s Ranaghat MP Jagannath Sarkar, and Bankura MLA Niladri Sekhar Dana for alleged irregularities in the recruitment of personnel at various levels at the AIIMS Kalyani.Accused BMS leader Gyanmohan Basak said, “The allegations are baseless.… Moreover, the complainants are not at all associated with BMS. I have no such power to provide them the job. It is a conspiracy to malign me....”.A senior BMS leader, who refused to be quoted said: “The allegations are quite embarrassing. We will examine their veracity first. If found true, disciplinary action will be taken against the person concerned.”