AAP lends support to jobless teachers

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, November 7

The Aam Aadmi Party on Sunday extended support and solidarity to the unemployed teachers’ unions members of which have been sitting on a dharna since October 28. They are demanding regular jobs.

Party leaders like mahila wing president Rajwinder Kaur, district president Olympian Surinder Singh Sodhi and district rural president Principal Prem Kumar met unemployed TET Pass BEd teachers, sitting on a dharna, to extend support to them.

They said the Channi government and the previous Capt Amarinder government had made false employment promises which were even included in the party’s manifesto. They said successive governments had failed to provide employment to hundreds of teachers in the state. The said while unemployed teachers had been asking for their right while climbing atop tanks for the past over a week, the government had done nothing to redress their grievances.

The AAP leaders said even the water tank which the teachers had climbed was itself in a very bad state which could cause a mishap in the coming days. The leaders said the Channi government had also failed in addressing people’s problems like the previous government.

Notably, teachers Munish Fazilka and Jaswant Ghubaya have been sitting atop a water tank near the bus stand, Jalandhar, since October 28 demanding the release of advertisements by the state government for posts of 9,000 teachers in the Education Department. Members of the BEd TET Pass Unemployed Teachers’ Union have since held several dharnas outside the residence of Cabinet minister Pargat Singh stressing on the same demand.

On the occasion, AAP leaders Jagtar Singh Sanghera, Dr Shiv Dyal Mali, Subhash Sharma, Joginder Pal Sharma, IS Bagga, Amrit Pal, Mukhtiar Singh, Varun and Jaspal Singh were also present.