Hundreds of teachers, who were recently given appointment letters, protested against the Punjab Government in front of the Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann’s residence in Sangrur on Sunday for not allotting them the place of posting.

The protestors staged demonstrations and raised slogans against the Bhagwant Mann-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Government in Punjab. Heavy security was deployed in front of the Chief Minister’s residence to control the crowd.

The protesting teachers also clashed with the police, who used force and lathi-charged them to disperse the crowd.

The protestors alleged that the turbans of many Sikh protestors fell to the ground as the police wielded their batons. The women protestors alleged that they were dragged and manhandled by the police.

As per information available, a similar protest took place on Saturday when members of 4,146 teachers of the master cadre union gathered outside the Chief Minister’s house demanding allotment of stations. Notably, the AAP Government had given them joining letters in January this year, but three months on, they are yet to receive posting orders.

Meanwhile, senior Congress leader and the Leader of Opposition in Vidhan Sabha Partap Singh Bajwa slammed the AAP-led Punjab Government for getting master cadre teachers manhandled by the police in Sangrur a day before.

“At the time, when the AAP leadership was boasting about the so-called pro-people budget, the master cadre teachers including women, who were protesting peacefully for the allotment of stations, outside the Punjab Chief Minister’s residence in Sangrur, were brutally assaulted by the police,” said Bajwa.

Bajwa asked, “What was the point of giving them the joining letters in January, when the Government had no intention of allotting them the stations? It seems that the government just wanted to seek fake publicity by giving them the joining letter.”