'Sorry Sir'

Over humiliation occurrence of Shyamal Kanti Bhakta, the headteacher of Piyar Sattar Latif High School of Narayanganj's Bandar upazila, various Bangladeshis took to twitter and facebook in a bid to show of solidarity with the victim school teacher.

 

The Bangladesh citizens, basically students are joining to hold their ears in person or in public in protesting the assault on teacher after the incident happened on last Friday.

 

Some of them took to facebook, twitter or other social media tools to criticize the assaulters by writing their comments and posting their status.

 

The people from nearly all walks of lives have taken part in the protest on the social media. Media personalities such as Iresh Zaker and Rawnak Hasan are among those who have changed their Facebook profile photo in solidarity with the humiliated teacher over the assault.

 

"Sorry Sir!", "We’re sorry, Sir!” and some other words or portions of sentences were also shown with the hashtags in the personal or group pages.

 

The general students, however, of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), hold their ears and attended in a human chain program, protesting the public humiliation of the teacher at the campus on May 17, 2016 (today).

 

Earlier on the day the management committee of the Piyar Sattar Latif High School of Narayanganj's Bandar upazila has suspended Shyamal Kanti Bhakta, the headteacher of the school, who was humiliated publicly in presence of local lawmaker recently.

 

Shyamal Kanti Bhakta, however, received the suspension letter on Tuesday (today).

 

According to the letter, a total of four allegations have been brought against him while he was performing his duty in the school.

 

The allegations, in accordance with the letter, are- physical torture to students, enjoying leave without permission, being late to office, corruption in teachers’ appointment and hurting religious sentiments.

 

'He acted those of the 'illegal' activities in the schools and was alerted in separate times but was no means,' the letter reads.

 

On May 13 (Friday), Shyamal Kanti Bhakta was beaten up by local people and made to do sit-ups holding his ears in presence of local Jatiya Party lawmaker AKM Selim Osman as he allegedly hurt the religious sentiments making some derogatory comments.