The demonstration by the assistant teachers of government primary schools, whose appointments were cancelled by a court order on February 6, that continued for 23 days without any break until Friday would continue.
They would not return to their houses until their one-point demand was met. The teachers remaining adamant about their demand created the prospect of them staying in the streets even in the month of Ramadan, which is likely to begin on March 2 or 3.
鈥楢 full-court hearing on our fate will be held on March 2. We have not left the streets despite several struggles and decided to continue our protests,鈥� said a protester, Mohib Bullah on Friday.
The protesters also brought out a torch procession on the Dhaka University campus and lit candles at the Central Shaheed Minar in the evening.
The recommended teachers have been staging demonstrations since February 6 after 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.
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
