Assistant teachers of government primary schools, whose appointments were cancelled by a court order on February 6, on the 24th day of their continuous protest on Saturday staged a symbolic hanging programme demanding their appointments.
鈥楾here will be no path for us except hanging ourselves if our appointments will not be given back to us,鈥� said a protester, Samia Eyasmin.
鈥榃e are giving this message to the authorities concerned clearly through our programme,鈥� said Samia.
Protesters held the symbolic hanging programme in front of the Bangladesh National Museum at Shahbagh just a day before a scheduled full-court hearing on March 2.
They also held day-long sit-in wearing burial shrouds with their hands tied with chains.
The protesters also brought out a procession from the venue.
Parading different roads on the Dhaka University campus, the procession ended at Shahbagh.
Another protester, Mohib Bullah, said that only if their demand was met would the protesters leave the streets.
The High Court declared illegal and scrapped the November 20, 2024 appointment of 6,531 assistant teachers in government primary schools in Dhaka and Chattogram based on job quotas as per the 2019 recruitment rules.
The Directorate of Primary Education on February 13 appealed against the verdict and the Appellate Division on February 18 posted a full-court hearing on March 2.
Protesters on Saturday evening announced that they would continue the sit-in in the night at Shahbagh and they would fast on the streets on the first day of Ramadan.聽聽
Earlier on February 10, 13 and 16, police used batons, water cannons, sound grenades and fired tear gas shells to disperse the protesters from Shahbagh and near the Bangladesh Secretariat in the capital, leaving some of them injured.聽聽
The recommended teachers have been staging demonstrations since February 6.
