Teachers plan hunger strike, chetna march

CHANDIGARH, MARCH 25: Activists of the Punjab Nav Niyukt Adhyapak Union have decided to intensify their agitation by holding rallies to p...

CHANDIGARH, MARCH 25: Activists of the Punjab Nav Niyukt Adhyapak Union have decided to intensify their agitation by holding rallies to press for their demands.

According to the unions press secretaries, Varinder Patel and Kulwinder Josan, on March 29, 525 union members will keep a 24-hour fast. They further said that if the government takes no steps to resolve the case before April 7, a "chetna march" would be organised by them to Anandpur Sahib.

The teachers are on a fast unto death outside the office of the Director Public Instructions (S), Sector 17, to protest the dismissal of the teachers by the state government on November 13, 1997. Tejinder Kaur, the first teacher to start the hunger strike is under treatment at the PGI, while Ritu Joshi and Jaspal Singh are under treatment at the General Hospital, Sector 16. One of the sacked teachers, Gurcharan Singh, is now observing the fast at the site.

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The local unit of Samata Party has condemned the continued attacks on the BJP-led central government by the Congress and the Communist Party of India. In a statement issued here today, local unit president of the party Ranjit Singh Dhaliwal said the Congress was personally targeting their party president George Fernandes, who would clear his stand in the debate scheduled on April 12 in the Parliament.

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