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Police resort to lathi-charge to disperse agitating dismissed teachers

Kolkata, May 15 (UNI) Baton-wielding police on Thursday night resorted to lathi charge to disperse agitating dismissed teachers from around Bikash Bhavan, the headquarters of the state Education Department at New Town in the city, official sources said.
Thousands of dismissed teachers had laid siege to Bikash Bhavan since this afternoon, denying the government staff from coming out and demanding reinstatement to their respective posts.
Police used batons after several requests to vacate the area failed to yield any result.
A senior official said police used lathis after being attacked by bricks and other missiles when they wanted to clear the exit.
The Police officer said they wanted to evacuate the government officials, who had been virtually detained as they were forced to stay in the office.
Several protestors were injured and seen bleeding and rushed to the nearby hospitals.
A protestor claimed that over 50 dismissed teachers were injured in police action.

Union Minister Sukanta Majumdar strongly condemned the alleged " Police excess" saying " from classrooms to crackdown". " From classrooms to crackdowns – Is this the price of raising a voice in Bengal, he said.
Vikas Bhawan, Kolkata turned into a battleground as state police unleashed a lathi-charge on peacefully protesting teachers," Majumdar, who is also the state BJP President, said.
He claimed one woman’s leg had fractured, another bleeding from the head — yet the brutality continued. " Is this democracy or dictatorship under Mamata Banerjee?," asked Majumdar.
The teachers were dismissed by an order of the Calcutta High Court, which was upheld by the Supreme Court. The Court cancelled the entire 2016 panel recruitment affecting some 26,000 teachers in the government-aided schools following an alleged cash for job scam , for which the then Education Minister Partha Chatterjee was arrested and is in the judicial custody.
The top court allowed the government to keep all the qualified teachers to run the schools until December 31, 2025 and at the same time start processing the appointment of the teachers.
The protestors demanded that the government return jobs to all the qualified teachers, as they would not sit for any further examination.
The dismissed teachers' protest was against the termination of their jobs.
The teachers demanded that the state take up the issue of their permanent reinstatement with the apex court.

The teachers under the banner of Jogya Shikshak Shikshika Adhikar Mancha (JSSAM) have been protesting with a sit-in since May 7 outside Bikash Bhavan.
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