The Bihar Police has opened a baton charge to disperse members of a farmer organisation in Patna. The members were marching to the State Assembly over their demands, news agency ANI reported on Wednesday.
Earlier in the month, Bihar police lathi-charged Central Teachers' Eligibility Test (CTET) aspirants as they protested against the state government in Patna over the ending of the domicile rule. The protesting aspirants are demanding the implementation of a domicile policy in recruitment. "A case will be registered against the protestors. They are taking to the roads causing traffic jams, stopping school students and causing damage to the property," Nurul Haque, DSP Law and Order Kotwali said, as quoted by ANI.
He further said, "They will have to go to jail for this. The police are removing them using lathis to control them." After a cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, the state government announced that eligible candidates from all states can apply for teaching jobs in the state's government-run schools.
Before implementing this, there was a rule which mandated that applicants with the domicile of Bihar could only apply for teaching jobs in the state's government-run schools.
In another incident, Punjab Police resorted to lathi charge after a group of teachers protesting against the government in state's Sangrur turned violent. The protestors from Khurana village were heading towards Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann's house, but as the police tried to stop them they turned violent and had a minor scuffle with the police personnel deployed there, officials added.
Palwinder Singh Cheema SP Sangrur said, "We have briefed them about everything and urged them to have a talk on the table but they tried to take law and order in their hand and turned violent and used force against the police," as quoted by ANI.
Cheema further alleged that the protestors also misbehaved with the female constables and they were getting provoked by local farmer leaders. "You can see how these teachers have misbehaved with the female constables and head constables and other police personnel. They are being instigated by the local farmer leader who asked them to block highways, I would like to urge these teachers don't take law and order into their hands," Cheema said, as quoted by ANI.
The teachers were demanding regularisation of their services. They alleged that the Aam Aadmi Party government had recently given them only a marginal increment while claiming in an announcement that it had regularised 14,239 teachers and other employees of the education department. In the lathi charge, many protestors received minor injuries and their clothes were torn apart.
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