Almost 24 hours have passed. Tet agitators are on hunger strike outside the Primary Education Board demanding jobs. The agitators are chanting slogans from time to time. Kaya Das came from Tarakeswar in Hooghly on Monday night to join the movement.
He was on the 2014 panel. He also gave an interview. But the job was not found. In his words, the interview was also good. But the job did not happen. Now after becoming CBI, I understand why it didn’t happen. As many unqualified people have been given jobs. Despite our qualifications, we did not get jobs.’ Therefore, he joined the movement with the demand of ‘right job’.
She left her two-and-a-half-year-old son at home with her husband. He does not eat without his mother. So the husband called again and again. The mother’s voice is heard by the son. In spite of the anxiety in the chest, teeth are gritted, but the streets are sitting with the co-movers. Singing slogans.
Mithu Nandi came from Jhargram. His name was also in the 2014 panel. But the job was not found. So he came to Karunamayi in Salt Lake on Monday night to join the movement. There is a girl with him. Read in fifth grade. In Mithu’s words, ‘the girl did not want to leave her mother alone so she came.’
“Primary education is the road ahead of the parliament for the whole of West Bengal. People have come from all districts,” said Biswajit Das from Nadia district. He complains, ‘Board president (Gautam Pal) says, forget the old days. But how do you forget it? Some of those who passed Tate at that time are on the threshold of forty or will cross forty. Who is responsible for their wasted years? It is the board’s responsibility. It is the government’s responsibility. So we have to recruit everyone who is left out of the demand list.’
The entire area has been surrounded by barricades. Almost all of the protesters are on hunger strike. Police personnel are sitting outside the first step of the barricade. A prison van was parked. The van left as the night progressed. On Monday, the police tried to remove the job seekers from the area. So a job seeker smiled softly and asked, ‘Will the van return late at night or in the morning?’