Police foil agitation by non-MPO teachers, employees

Teachers and employees of Non-MPO (Monthly Pay Order) educational institutions have alleged that police obstructed them from starting an indefinite sit-in demanding inclusion in the MPO.

The sit-in was scheduled to start in front of the National Press Club on Sunday morning.

The agitators also alleged police picked up the president of the Federation of Teachers and Employees of Non-MPO Educational Institutions Golam Mahmudunnabi and its general secretary Binoy Bhusan Roy.  

The protestors are now scattered around the north side of the road in front of the press club.  

The organisation’s vice president Shafiqul Islam told Prothom Alo that they started to gather in front of the press club after 9:00am in the morning. Police prevented them from sitting there, he added.

Shafiqul said police picked up the president and the general secretary of their organsation.

He said their agitation will continue until their demand is fulfilled.    

About the detention of the two leaders, Ramna division police’s assistant commissioner Ehsan Ferdous said he has no knowledge of any such detention.

The teachers and employees started an indefinite agitation on 26 December for inclusion in MPO.

On 5 January, they postponed their agitation when the personal secretary of the prime minister, Sajjadul Hasan, assured them that their demand would be met.

In his budget speech in parliament on Thursday, the finance minister did not give any indication of inclusion in the MPO.