After a group of teachers, who had been rendered jobless by a recent Supreme Court verdict on the WBSSC Recruitment Scam, went to the residence of former Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly to invite him to a march to the West Bengal state secretariat, 'Nabanna', on April 21, the 52-year-old respectfully turned down the invitation.

The teachers had approached Ganguly at his Behala residence on Tuesday, requesting him to join their planned march.

52-year-old Ganguly, known for largely staying away from political controversies, responded with a brief message: "Please don't involve me in politics," he told Abp Ananda.

The teachers are among the 25,753 teaching and non-teaching staff of state-sponsored and—aided schools who lost their jobs after the Supreme Court found large-scale irregularities in the 2016 recruitment process and scrapped the entire panel on April 3. They are protesting what they claim is an unjust termination and hope to gather support from public figures for their cause.

When the teachers were asked to hand over the invite to the staff in Ganguly's office, they refused and insisted on meeting him personally.

However, before they could meet Ganguly, the police stopped them and took them to a police station to discuss procedural issues before issuing the invitation.

Earlier, the Supreme Court had annulled the appointment of 25,753 teachers and non-teaching staff in West Bengal government-sponsored and aided schools. It declared the selection process as "null and void". West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee then held a meeting with the jobless teachers on April 7 and asked them to keep faith in her.

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