Helpless Teachers

From the political conflicts, teachers are not also safe here.

Awami League (AL) activists have allegedly forced a schoolteacher in Sharsha upazila in the district to sign a resignation letter at gunpoint.

The victim, Saheb Ali, a teacher of Sharsha Dhanyokhola High School, also a local BNP leader, said he faced the situation due to political reasons.

He was taking class at the school at about 11:00am on Wednesday when a group of armed men led by Awami League's Bahadurpur union unit General Secretary Mofizur Rahman Mofiz appeared and asked him to sign on a resignation letter prepared by them. They also brought his son Shibli Sadik Tushar, a class nine student of the school, to confine him in a bathroom. At this stage, Shaheb signed the letter, he said.

Later, BNP leaders informed Jessore deputy commissioner of the matter.

However, local AL leaders denied the allegations and said Shaheb was appointed a teacher at the school through political influence during the BNP-led four-party alliance rule.

When contacted, Benapole Port Police Station officer-in-charge Nurul Amin expressed his ignorance about the incident.