{"id":16054,"date":"2026-05-15T05:13:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T05:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/2026\/05\/15\/tmc-leader-jyotipriya-mallicks-daughter-priyadarshini-mallick-removed-as-wbchse-secretary\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T05:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T05:13:11","slug":"tmc-leader-jyotipriya-mallicks-daughter-priyadarshini-mallick-removed-as-wbchse-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/?p=16054","title":{"rendered":"TMC leader Jyotipriya Mallick\u2019s daughter Priyadarshini Mallick removed as WBCHSE secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-131108387,imgsize-23066,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/1280720-2026-05-15t101825401.jpg\" alt=\"TMC leader Jyotipriya Mallick\u2019s daughter Priyadarshini Mallick removed as WBCHSE secretary\" title=\"&lt;p&gt;Picture source: LinkeIn&lt;\/p&gt;\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Priyadarshini Mallick, daughter of former West Bengal minister and TMC leader Jyotipriya Mallick, has been removed from her post as secretary of the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education (WBCHSE), the body that conducts the state\u2019s Higher Secondary examinations, IANS news agency reported, sharing the official letter.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"2\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>Mallick had reportedly earlier been asked to resign as part of a larger restructuring process within the department, but she did not agree to step down from the post. Following this, WBCHSE authorities decided to remove her from the position. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>The reshuffle comes amid continued scrutiny over controversies linked to the previous <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/trinamool-congress\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Trinamool Congress<\/a> administration, including the multi-crore cash-for-school-jobs case.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/>During the investigation into the alleged multi-crore Public Distribution System (PDS) scam, in which her father Jyotipriya Mallick was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in 2023, Priyadarshini Mallick\u2019s name had also surfaced. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/>Based on the ED\u2019s findings, questions were raised over how she allegedly earned Rs 3.37 crore through private tuition work in a single financial year.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/>The state government has also advised her to return to her original role as an assistant professor at the state-aided Asutosh College in south Kolkata.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/education\/news\/tmc-leader-jyotipriya-mallicks-daughter-priyadarshini-mallick-removed-as-wbchse-secretary\/articleshow\/131108152.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Priyadarshini Mallick, daughter of former West Bengal minister and TMC leader Jyotipriya Mallick, has been removed from her post as secretary of the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education (WBCHSE), the body that conducts the state\u2019s Higher Secondary examinations, IANS news agency reported, sharing the official letter.Mallick had reportedly earlier been asked to resign&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}