Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 26: Peeved over the callous attitude of the State Govt towards the miserable plight of the Plus 2 contractual lecturers who are observing chain hunger strike for the last 41 days and which included female lecturers in majority, NPP chairman Harsh Dev Singh lambasted the BJP-PDP for making mockery of the tall ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ slogan bugled by the Centre and the State Governments.
Addressing a press conference here today, Harsh Dev accused the State Government for compelling the protesters to come on the roads to draw its attention towards their miseries. He said that the protest only brought disgrace to the incumbent Government when several female teachers squatted on the road over Tawi bridge for seeking genuine demand of their regularization of services and were mal-treated and lathi-charged by police.
He lamented that the Government’s apathy towards the 41- day old protest had established the fact that it had been treating the educated youth like disposable commodities by divesting them of due share in the employment. Admonishing the coalition and BJP in particular Singh said that the slogans of ‘Achey Din’ and ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ were only “jumlas” for the public consumption and to hoodwink the gullible masses.
Referring to the plight of one Vinod Kumar, a contractual lecturer who had continuously observed fast for 32 days, Singh said that the protestor was rushed to the hospital for urgent medical intervention when his vital parameters plummeted to alarming level and during the course of struggle his mother tragically collapsed in shock. He further maintained that the condition of another lecturer Seema Rajput who had been observing fast for the last 15 days was deteriorating severely day by day.
Expressing solidarity with the Plus two contractual lecturers, he said that the teaching fraternity had been rendering their services with zeal and honesty in schools on paltry salary with a hope that they would be regularized to earn with dignity and honour.
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