Faction of 10323 retrenched teachers sits for hunger strike ahead of PM’s visit in Tripura
Oct 20, 2022At a time when the TIPRA Motha chief and the state’s royal scion Pradyot Kishore Deb Burman is leaving no stone unturned to take a political mileage out of the 10323 teachers in the state ahead of the 2023 assembly elections, a faction of the 10,323 sacked teachers on Thursday began a hunger strike here at Agartala demanding for restoration of their service. The hunger strike is led by one of the retrenched teachers Pradip Banik, who always maintained a distance from the Joint Action Committee of 10,323 teachers which is a larger front of three organisations.
“We lost our jobs due to the ignorant attitude of the higher officials of the Education and Law department,” Babnik told reporters on Thursday, adding that although the jobs provided by the previous Left front government were termed as illegal by the Tripura High Court, but there no mention of 10323 teachers in the judgement of the court. Banik also accused a section of officials of misinterpreting the Court Judgements which ruined their lives. “We hope the state government will hear our pleas and make efforts to reinstate us in the schools”, he said.
Meanwhile, the other faction– Joint Action Committee of 10323 teachers, who recently met the Chief Minister Dr. Manik Saha hoped that a permanent solution would be brought by the government before the festival of Diwali. On the other hand, the TIPRA Motha chief Pradyot Kishore Deb Burman Thursday met the renowned and the senior most advocate of the Supreme Court Kapil Sibal in Delhi to move a fresh fight for the job of retrenched 10323 teachers of Tripura.
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