Jobless teachers meet Bengal BJP, Cong leaders, solicit support for their protest

A delegation of protesting school teachers, who have lost their jobs following a recent Supreme Court order, met BJP and Congress leaders in West Bengal, and sought support for their ‘apolitical’ sit-in outside the state education department headquarters.

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The team of around 20 teachers called on BJP leaders on Wednesday and requested them to arrange meetings with President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

These teachers have been staging a sit-in outside Bikash Bhavan, the West Bengal Education Department headquarters, for the last several days, demanding that they be reinstated in their jobs. A delegation of around 20 members of the Deserving Teachers Rights Forum called on former union minister and senior BJP leader Debasree Choudhury at the party office here, seeking help for arranging meetings with the President and the PM, a protester said.