BY TC News Desk
Agartala Jan 20: Tripura police did nothing except ‘boot-licking’ the BJP-led government in these 5 years, said 10,323 teachers after they were summoned to the court on Friday.
12 retrenched teachers of the 10,323 group appeared in court on Friday in connection with a case filed against them by police against January 27, 2022 incident when the tent of the agitating retrenched teachers had been demolished by police to break their movement.
However, Advocate Bhashkar Debbarma who is handling the case on behalf of the teachers said that as the matter had been delayed the representing the retrenched teachers were not produced in court today. They will be produced in court later on.
Notably, the retrenched 10,323 teachers had launched a sit-in strike from the first week of December 2019 to press for their reinstatement after the then chief minister Biplab Kumar Deb did not comply with his promise of solving the 10,323 issue.
Later after long days of protest, the state government under BJP rule had put up police machinery against the teachers to throttle their peaceful protests.Police in its affair mentioned that the sacked teachers vandalized government properties.
However, the teachers while speaking to the reporters on Friday said, “Our teachers were assaulted, the protest Dias was broken, police used tear gas shells, water canon on us and now they are harassing us with false and fabricated cases”.The sacked teachers demanded police to resign from its post as they are incapable of discharging duty according to law and without being biased.The 10,323 teachers further announced that they won’t cast a single vote for the BJP in the ensuing elections.
