Assam Assembly Adjourned Over TET Teachers’ Regularization Issue

STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI: The issue of regular appointment of TET qualified teachers on Monday caused a noisy scene in Assam Assembly forcing the Speaker Hitendra Nath Goswami to adjourn the ongoing summer session for a while and Cabinet minister Himanta Biswa Sarma to leave the House.

The opposition Congress MLAs were agitated when the Education minister Siddhartha Bhattacharyya told the House that the TET teachers have no justification to carry out an agitation over the issue of regularization of their jobs. He said a meeting held between him and representatives of TET teachers on June 27 resolved all issues.

“But a section of teachers launched an agitation from June 29 overlooking the outcome of June 27 meeting. We will not tolerate politics in education,” Bhattacharyya said.

Soon after the Education minister’s statement the Congress MLAs Kamalakhya Dey Purkayastha and Rupjyoti Kurmi raised a hue & cry in the House and engaged in a war of words with the ruling party MLAs. Purkayastha said the BJP had promised in its Vision Document to regularize TET teachers’ jobs. The noisy scene reached to such a pass that Himanta Biswa Sarma demanded the Speaker to expel Purkayastha from the House. Sarma immediately left the house. Kurmi and Purkayastha again tried to create a ruckus and disrupt the proceedings of the House. The Speaker then adjourned the House for 10 minutes.

Speaker Hitendra Nath Goswami while issuing a strong warning to both Kurmi and Purkayastha, said his liberal attitude must not be taken for advantage to disrupt the proceedings of the House. He said if such situation continues he will be compelled to take actions against Kurmi and Purkayastha.

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