“Shameful act”: After cops enter Bathinda classroom to detain teacher, unions slam AAP govt

Sidhana, who is the president of pre-primary teachers union, had said that she had no plans to participate in any protest Monday, and even then policemen stayed inside her classroom for nearly six hours until 2 pm.

Detaining a woman teacher in school is the most shameful act of the AAP government, said the Democratic Teacher Front (DTF) in a statement, Wednesday.

“The reality is that they are making Punjab a police state and their so-called claims of bringing Sikhya Kranti (education revolution) have been exposed. Instead of regularising the teachers under the civil service rules, the police are beating them with batons,” said the DTF statement.

DTF state president Vikram Dev said, “Not only the teacher was kept in detention at her school for six hours, the police even reached her maternal grandparents’ house where she lived a few years ago. The police accompanied her from her house to the school and were present in the school for the whole day. The AAP government is gradually moving towards creating a police state.”

“Had the Punjab government regularized the contractual teachers and kept its promise, then today there would have been no need to detain them. But the AAP government has run away from all its promises made before the 2022 Punjab assembly polls. Advertisements worth crores of rupees were put up all over Punjab under the false propaganda of making the contractual teachers permanent, but till date not a single teacher has been regularized. On the contrary, the government is now intimidating those employees who are agitating for their rights,” said Dev.

DTF teacher union leader Malkit Singh Haraj said that on one hand the Punjab government was continuously shouting the slogan of “Education Revolution” in Punjab, on the other hand, teachers were being detained by sending police to schools and police terror was being imposed on children. The leaders of the organization warned that instead of terrorizing teachers, the government should regularize them, otherwise the struggle will be intensified.

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