Cong leaders plead for promotion of students

Statesman News Service

MALDA, Dec. 16: A group of Congress leaders in English Bazaar town launched a movement against a school authority demanding promotion of students who have failed in the Class XII test. Yesterday, the Congress leaders pleaded for the 37 girls who were disallowed in the test of Class XII by authorities of Malda Girls’ High School. Congress leaders like chairman of English Bazaar civic body Mr. Narendranath Tiwari, vice chairman Mr Biswanath Guho, Asim Maitra, Hassan Ali Shah, Madhumay Sarkar and other members of the town congress including Chhatra Parishad leaders went to the English Bazaar police station and in their presence a guardian Mr Anil Sarkar submitted a complaint with the police. It was alleged that the headmistress of the Malda Girls’ High School Ms Sutapa Chatterjee misbehaved with the unsuccessful girls and their guardians in her chamber and she allegedly slapped and beat up three of the girls. Last year the Congress and Chhatra Parishad leaders had launched a movement in support of the girls who had failed in class XI in some schools in English Bazaar town. The school authorities, however, denied the charges and admitted that one of students fell down at the door when the headmistress was trying to move out of her chamber. Yesterday, the headmistress had called 37 girls out of 126 and their guardians to inform them that the school authorities were not in a position to allow them to appear for the Class XII exam.