SP steps up stir against govt, meets governor again
LUCKNOW: Stepping up its campaign against the ruling BJP in Uttar Pradesh, a delegation of Samajwadi Party legislators met governor Ram Naik on Wednesday and sought his intervention to solve ad hoc primary teachers’ problem and improvement in law and order.
This was the party’s second meeting with the governor within a week. Earlier, also a party delegation had handed over a memorandum to Naik when party president Akhilesh Yadav was prevented from going to Auraiya to meet party workers.
The delegation of SP MLAs and MLCs was led by senior party leader Ahmad Hasan. The party panel apprised the governor of alleged instances of harassment of its panchayat leaders at the hands of police and problem of ‘shiksha mitras’, sitting on a ‘dharna’ in the state capital for three days now demanding regularization of their service.
SP spokesman Rajendra Chowdhury said police officials were harassing party’s panchyat members, and that BJP leaders were using them to oust their district panchyat chairmen.
The memorandum alleged that as the matter of regularisation of ‘shiksha mitras’ was not taken up properly by the state government in the Supreme Court, lakhs of them are now agitating. “Attempts are being made to cancel recruitment of 35,000 constables done in previous SP regime,” the SP leaders said. Chowdhury said the governor assured the delegation that he would look into the matter. The UP government, as per SC order, had decided to revert all ad hoc primary teachers in primary education, and announced Rs 10,000 per month as honorarium for them.