Chandigarh: Punjab’s Leader of the Opposition (LoP), Partap Singh Bajwa on Sunday slammed the Aam Aadmi Party-led Punjab government for getting master cadre teachers manhandled by the police in Sangrur yesterday.
“At the time, when the AAP leadership was boasting about the so-called pro-people budget, the master cadre teachers including women, who were protesting peacefully for the allotment of stations, outside the Punjab chief minister’s residence in Sangrur, were brutally assaulted by the police”, Bajwa added.
Senior Congress Leader, Bajwa while referring to some media reports said that teachers were protesting under the banner of 4146 teachers of master cadre, demanding allotment of stations. The AAP government had given them joining letters in January this year, but three months on, they are yet to receive posting orders. Some news reports also printed very disturbing images of teachers violently treated by the police, which demonstrate the insensitivity of AAP towards the people, who were asking for their rights.
“What was the point of giving them the joining letters in January, when the government had no intention of allotting them the stations? It seems that the government just wanted to seek fake publicity by giving them the joining letter. Meanwhile, they have been left in the lurch”, LoP added.
Bajwa said that the teachers are considered future-builders of the country. If their future could not be made secure, how can they work on securing the future of the coming generations?
Qadian Legislator, Bajwa said that despite raising the issue of regularising the jobs of firemen, the local bodies minister Dr Inderbir Singh Nijjar failed to provide a satisfactory answer. The AAP government must answer why can’t it regularise the services of firemen, who often face life-threatening situations.