Agitated with Supreme Court’s decision on their adjustment as Assistant Teachers, several hundred Siksha Mitras blocked the national highway in Sitapur for several hours on Thursday and fought a pitched battle with the police after the latter tried to forcibly disperse them.
later senior officers including District Magistrate and SP of Sitapur rushed to the scene and had a hard time clearing the blockade.
Earlier, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had appealed to the Sikha Mitras to maintain patience assuring that the government would look into their matter but reports of agitation continued to pour in from several parts on Thursday.
As per reports, about 1000 Siksha Mitras gathered under the banner of `Shisha Mitra Welfare Association’ and led by the association state president Banwari lal and state president of Siksha Mitra Foundation, ghearoed the BSA office in Sitapur on Thursday morning.
later they marched to the reached NH-24 and staged a huge road blockade. The situation took an ugly turn when the police cane charged them in a bid to remove the blockade. The Siksha Mitras retaliated by hirling missiles at thee men in uniform and had fought pitched battle for several hours. In the fracas, more than two dozen cops and agitators suffered injuries.
later the DM and SP backed by their junior colleagues reached the spot and managed to clear the blockade but the situation was still tense in the district and heavy police force was deployed to maintain peace.
In other districts including lucknow, Shrawasti, Sultanpur, Amethi, Bahraich etc, the Siksha Mitras staged protests to register their ire agianst the top court decision.
Meanwhile, the death of a `kanwariya’ in a road mishap in Ambedkarnagar resulted into violent protests with kanwariyas bhakts torching a police outpost, damaging a petrol pump and several shops on Thursday morning.
Reports said that some ‘kanwariyas’ were sleeping outside Banke Bihari petrol pump on Tanda Road in Maya Bazar area in Ambedkarnagar when a speeding truck crushed one of them to death early Thursday morning. The cops deployed on duty shifted the body to the mortuary and the agitated kanwariyas demandd that the body be returned to them for the last rites. The negotiations between the cops and the kanwariyas failed and the irked mob damaged several passing vehicles, torched the local police outpost and over a dozen two wheelers parked there. later heavy police force reached the spot and somehow defused the situation.