"We are with sentiments of guest teachers," says MP Congress Chief Jitu Patwari, participates in their protest march in Bhopal

Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], October 2 (ANI): Madhya Pradesh Congress Chief Jitu Patwari participated in a protest march of guest teachers in Bhopal on Wednesday.
A group of guest teachers were taking out a march from Ambedkar Park in the city to the CM House for their demand of regularisation but the police stopped them at the Second stop area in the city by putting barricades.

Patwari told ANI, "Regarding guest teachers, Jyotiraditya Scindia, who is a Union Minister, had said that he would topple the government and he did. Former CM of MP, Shivraj Singh Chouhan held a panchayat to regularise guest teachers, promised them and then formed the government in the state. Mohan Yadav, who is the Chief Minister of the state today, wrote a letter to Kamal Nath and now all three leaders are insulting him, BJP is insulting him."
"A minister (referring to school education minister Uday Pratap Singh) who said that you (guest teachers) are guests and occupiers (kabjadhari), that minister should have been dismissed at that time itself. If they (guest teachers) got the word 'Guest', it was due to the inefficiency of the BJP government. It was due to Chouhan's inefficiency," he said.
"If you (state BJP government) had regularly recruited teachers every year, then why would they be guests? If there is anyone who made them guests, it is BJP and Shivraj Singh Chouhan. We condemn this and we are with the sentiments of the guest teachers," Patwari added.
Meanwhile, state president of MP Guest Teachers Association, KC Pawar said that their demand was for regularisation and the state government was "fooling" them for the last 16 years.
"Our demand is for regularisation and the state government has been fooling them for the last 16 years only by giving assurance. They used us during the elections and announced policies to secure our future but nothing happened. Earlier, Scindia advocated from us and warned Kamal Nath government to regularise guest teachers otherwise he would hit the road. He didn't do anything for us but he became the minister in the central BJP government."
After that the then CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan promised and made an announcement for securing the future of guest teachers before 2023 state assembly polls but all went in vain, he added.
"Additionally, during Kamal Nath government, current CM Mohan Yadav had written a letter to Nath that the demands of guest teachers were genuine and requested him to fulfil the demand. Now, he is the CM of the state, he can regularise us as he doesn't need to write a letter to anyone anymore," Pawar added.
"We will be staging an indefinite strike here. We want to meet the CM. We don't want to meet the school education minister. He recently called us occupier. He had said that we are guest teachers and should remain like that; do not be an occupier," Pawar further said. (ANI)