Nawanshahr: On April 19, teachers selected in the 5994 recruitment (backlog) at Education Minister Harjot Singh Bains' village Gambhirpur were severely beaten up by the Anandpur Sahib police administration during their ongoing struggle demanding issuance of appointment letters.
A teacher was openly slapped by the SHO Danish Veer on the spot, while the teachers were being arrested, they were dragged and kicked while boarding the bus and another policeman sat on the teacher's lap by placing his knee on his hip. Unemployed teachers were taken to the police station and abused on the instigation of the government and the police administration is making shameless statements on social media platforms about continuing such actions in the future.
Terming it as inhuman torture, the Democratic Teachers Front held a meeting at the district headquarters under the leadership of District President Jaswinder Aujla and General Secretary Manohar Lal and burnt the effigies of Education Revolution, Chief Minister Punjab and Education Minister Punjab. During this, while paying tribute to the innocent people killed in Pahalgam (Kashmir), they demanded strict action against the culprits and appealed to be vigilant against divisive communal forces.
On this occasion, Vice Presidents Shankar Das, Ajay Chahar Majara Press Secretary Chandra Shekhar said that the Punjab government has been trying to crush the struggle of every section of the people struggling across the state by giving free rein to the police in the past and is moving towards making Punjab a police state. Under this, blind torture has been done on unemployed teachers related to 5994 recruitment and an attempt has been made to intimidate the struggling people of Punjab.
Citing the struggle heritage of Punjab, he demanded that the Punjab government take appropriate action against the police officers who have beaten up teachers and issue appointment letters to the remaining teachers of all the ongoing recruitments. Teachers who have received appointment letters should be made present in schools. Appointment letters for 2994 backlog recruitments out of 5994 should be issued soon. People should stop misleading people through the so-called education revolution. Vacant posts of teachers in schools should be filled immediately. Teachers should not be given non-academic work.
DTF district leaders Manjit Ram and Balvir Bhullar said that in collaboration with fraternal organizations, there will be a full participation in the warning march to be held on May 4 at the Education Minister's village Gambhirpur regarding the future demands of the teachers. Pensioners Balvir Kumar, Gurvinder Singh Jagdeep Sample, Dilbagh Singh, Ramesh Thakur, Yodhpal, Gagan Suniara, Gurdeep Dupalpuri, Mandeep Kumar, Sukhjinder Ram, Ram Jeet, Satnam Mirpuri, Yashpal Sharma, Bhupinder Saroya and Satwinder Sembhi etc. were also present on the occasion.