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MPO Agitation

Police foil teachers' hunger strike

Staff Correspondent
Police yesterday did not allow the agitating non-MPO teachers and employees to stage their prescheduled fast-unto-death programme for inclusion of their educational institutions in the government's Monthly Payment Order (MPO) system.
Yesterday was the third day of the agitation.
In the morning, the teachers and employees were barred from demonstrating in front of the Jatiya Press Club, their scheduled venue. Later police sprayed teargas when around 300 of them tried to hold the programme at the Central Shaheed Minar in the capital.
At least 20 teachers were hurt by the teargas, teachers alleged.
Ramim Hasan, a journalist of private television Somoy, was also injured, witnesses said.
The agitating teachers
are scheduled to gather at the Shaheed Minar again today morning, and if police bar them, they will hold the programme at Suhrawardy Udyan.
Under the banner of “Non-MPO Shikkha Pratishthan Shikkhak Karmachari Oikya Jote", the teachers and employees on Wednesday declared the hunger strike in front of the press club.
The law enforcers obstructed the demonstrators around 9:00am yesterday, when they started gathering
at the venue. Police asked them to stay away from the press club, said the president of the alliance.
Around 1:30pm, the law enforcers showed up and asked the protesters to leave and took away their loudspeakers.
Contacted, Officer-in-charge Sirajul Islam of Shahbagh Police Station said police requested the strikers to leave the place, as instructed by the higher authorities.
"No one can hold a programme [at Shaheed
Minar] without the university authorities' permission. Therefore, we tried to stop them as they did not have the permission," he added.
As the alliance supporters did not pay heed to the law enforcers' request, police used teargas spray and chased them out of the Shaheed Minar site.
"We will continue our movement until the government responds positively,” said the alliance president Esharat Ali. "Hopefully, we will get the university's permission tonight [last night].”