POBNEWS24, Dhaka Aug 31, 2024 : After the fall of the Sheikh Hasina government, 49 teachers from the minority community were forced to resign. It has been possible to reinstate 19 of them.
This information was given in a press conference organized by Bangladesh Chhatra Oikya Parishad, an organ of Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Oikya Parishad, at the National Press Club of the capital on Saturday. The press conference was held to protest the persecution of minorities and the forced resignation of teachers and students in educational institutions. There, these incidents were condemned and the culprits were demanded to be brought under the law.
Haripad Das, Principal of Gallak Adarsh Degree College, Faridganj, Chandpur, presented his experience at the press conference.
He said he was regularly threatened to resign.
Haripad Das said that after the fall of the Sheikh Hasina government on August 5, his house was vandalized and looted in Gupti village of Gupti Union in Faridganj, Chandpur. He and his family members somehow escaped that day and saved their lives. After that the family members returned home but he could not return yet. He could not even go to college. But according to government directives, it is compulsory to attend college tomorrow on Sunday.
Haripad Das said that he was regularly threatened to resign. Don’t know how to go to college tomorrow. He is afraid of joining college.
Dipankar Chandra Sheel, coordinator of Chhatra Oikya Parishad, read the written statement at the press conference.
It is said in the written statement that since the fall of the government, the minority community teachers in charge of various educational institutions are being physically assaulted and forced to resign. Teachers are insulted by their own students at the instigation of society’s miscreants. Those who are the artisans of nation building are today humiliated in their educational institutions. They condemned it.
It was also mentioned in the press conference that the violence against the minority community has started since August 5 and is still ongoing. At that time, the general secretary of the Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council, Rana Dasgupta, condemned it and demanded that the case be withdrawn.
Sajib Sarkar, Coordinator of Chhatra Oikya Parishad presided over this press conference.
Oikya Parishad coordinator Joy Roy, Dhaka University student Swarna Rani Dey, Bangladesh University student Joyita Biswas, Narsingdi Government College student Lincoln Dutta and others also spoke.
Anti-discrimination students protested, pointing out that Jai Roy said that if any teacher has done wrong, then legal action should be taken against him.
But if ordinary teachers are harassed in a rampant manner, then the education system itself will be destroyed.
