Kin hold demonstrations in districts to support protesting assistant police personnel

Ranchi: Parents and family members of assistant police personnel, who are sitting on an

indefinite dharna

at the

Morhabadi

ground here, staged dharna and rallies at their respective home districts on Thursday.

The personnel are on a dharna in the capital for more than a month now demanding regularisation of their services. One of the protesters, Amit Kumar Mishra, said, “Our guardians took out rallies in our respective districts and staged protests in front of the deputy commissioner’s office. The rallies were held in 12 extremist-affected districts where we have been appointed for aiding the police force.”

During the protests, the relatives raised slogans saying that the demands of the assistant police personnel were reasonable and that justice should be done to them.

The personnel are on indefinite dharna since September 27 and on Thursday, they staged a protest from 11 am to 3 pm in support of the demonstrations held by their parents.

Another protester, Vivekanand Gupta, said, “Even though one month has passed, no one from the government has approached us for talks. We should not be the victim of political rivalries.”

The earlier BJP government had appointed around 2,500 assistant police personnel in extremist-affected Giridih, Chatra, Dumka, West Singhbhum, East Singhbhum, Gumla, Simdega, Latehar, Khunti, Palamu, Lohardaga and Garwah districts in 2017 on a contractual basis.