Tripura teachers to resume stir, 85 died of numerous causes

Agartala, Feb 4 : Thousands of Tripura government school teachers, who had lost their jobs following court verdicts, on Thursday announced to launch their agitation afresh.
Tripura police, however, again denied permission to the former government school teachers to hold sit-in-demonstration, which was forcefully removed after 52 days on January 27, leading to high pitched battle between the protesters and the security forces.
West Tripura district police chief Manik Lal Das told IANS that they denied permission to hold the sit-in “in view of the prevailing law and order sitiation”.
The spokesman of the agitating teachers, Bijay Krishna Saha, said that as the police declined to allow them to resume the agitation, they would file a case in the high court on Friday seeking intervention of the court to hold the protest in a democratic manner.
“We are keen to continue our agitation until the state government reinstates our jobs,” Saha told the media.
According to the police, Kalyan Das (53), one of the 10,323 retrenched government teachers, died on Wednesday after being distressed and depressed because of losing his government job in March last year. With this, the number of protesting teachers dying due to numerous reasons has gone up to 85.