Agartala, Jan 20, 2023, TRIPURATIMES Desk
Agartala Jan 20: Instead of fulfilling the promise of ‘finding permanent solution’ to our issue, the state government has given us nothing except harassment, despair and false cases in these 5 years of governance, alleged 10,323 terminated teachers.
The state came after 12 terminated 10,323 teacher of JMC of 10,323 teachers’ group reached the West Tripura District Court on Friday in connection with a case filed against them on behalf of Tripura police.
According to details, “Tripura police filed a case against 12 teachers alleging them for destroying state government property during their protests on January 27 in the capital city”.
Notably, the 10,323 teachers under Joint Movement Committee had launched an indefinite sit-in strike from the first week of December 2019. And later police administration launched action over the peaceful agitation to put a stop to the protests.
Speaking to the reporters at the court premises, one of the summoned teachers’ Dalia Das said, “We launched protest after the then chief minister Biplab Kumar Deb failed to keep his promise of permanent solution within two months. We were protesting peacefully according to our democratic rights. But the state government used its police machinery to throttle our voice and the entire Tripura witnessed the barbaric assaults of police of the teachers’ and their family members including small children in front of city centre”.
“We did not demolish anything, but the police demolished our tents put up at the protest spot and assaulted the teachers and dragged then out of the spot. They even stole the donation box and the money in it”, she added.
“but later on police registered false and fabricated cases against twelve of us among which two teachers are from Khowai on various cooked-up charges”, said Daliya Das.
Speaking on behalf of the teachers, Advocate Bhashkar Debbarma said, “Since the matter has been delayed the representing teachers were not produced before the court on Friday and later on it will be done”.
Adv Debbarma however lambasted the state government and police administration adding that the later should resign from posts of police personnel as they “do not have any respect towards the national emblem and uniform”.