Agartala, January 27 (PTI): Tension prevailed in Agartala on Wednesday, as scores of terminated school teachers demonstrated outside Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb's official residence here, prompting the police to use tear gas and water cannons to disperse them.
Over 10,000 government school teachers were sacked last year, in accordance with a 2014 high court order, which said that their recruitment process was a faulty one. The Supreme Court later upheld the verdict.
Demanding a solution to the crisis, the teachers had been staging a sit-in over the last 52 days at Paradise Chowmuhani in the state capital.
Trouble started in the morning after the police dismantled the makeshift tent, where they had been holding the protest, and detained around 300 agitators.
Shortly after, the protesters set out on a march to the CM's residence, notwithstanding the restrictions, even as the police tried to stop them.
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