Dimapur, October 5 (MExN): The ongoing All Nagaland Ad-hoc Teachers Group (ANATG) - 2015 batch agitation can only be resolved politically and the teachers should stand their ground till the State Cabinet takes a positive decision, the Rising People’s Party has said.
“From day one, the political leadership should have addressed the issue, led by the Advisor of School Education himself but it’s disheartening that despite the serious nature of the agitation our leaders are yet to respond to the teachers’ plight,” it stated in a press release on October 4.
The RPP advised the teachers to stop talking with the bureaucrats in the Department of School Education (DoSE), adding that “Only the intervention of the Chief Minister himself can resolve the issue.”
Lamenting the lack of political will to resolve the matter, the RPP further stated that the NDPP-BJP coalition should “get their priorities right and stop their whispering campaigns against each other over the issue for petty political mileage.”
“If at all the NDPP or the BJP were really serious, these two parties would have come out openly in support of the teachers by now and got the job done. But it’s obvious the NDPP-BJP leaders are treating the teachers as political pawns and the RPP is fed-up of their disgusting game of one-upmanship,” it said.
Pointing out that the politicians have remained silent even when teachers are being hospitalized, it also questioned as to who would be responsible if any untoward incident happens.
Meanwhile, it reminded that the teachers “should not fall prey to any commitments whatsoever short of regularisation.”
