Thiruvananthapuram, CJP South India in-charge Vijay Reddy Mallangi on Thursday joined a 12-hour hunger strike organised by LPST rank holders in front of the Keralam Secretariat here, demanding appointments to government schools.
“The protesters have remained very peaceful and very hopeful that he will live up to his word. He alleged that the government’s failure to fulfil its promise pointed to irregularities in appointments of teachers in government and aided schools. “There’s a lot of irregularity, a lot of corruption. the discussions failed to resolve the issue Although Education Minister P Samsudheen held talks with the protesters.
Speaking to reporters, Mallangi said Chief Minister V D Satheesan had earlier promised that the issue concerning Lower Primary School Teacher rank holders would be resolved within 24 hours of the UDF government coming to power. She had tonsured her head on October 26 before beginning the hunger strike, demanding that appointments to government schools be made from the Kerala Public Service Commission rank list for LPST posts before its expiry. Because of financial constraints, adding that his eyes had filled with tears when he saw a woman protester tonsure her head, cM Satheesan had on Wednesday said his government was unable to accept the agitating LPST rank holders’ demand for a lower teacher-student ratio.
But after close to six months have passed by since the CM was sworn in, this issue has not been solved,” he said. So to come clean, we demand to have a uniform recruitment process through PSC for all schools,” he said.
