Dhaka, March 2 -- The candidates whose appointments as assistant teachers in government primary schools in Dhaka and Chattogram divisions were cancelled by the High Court have threatened to carry out "mass suicide" if they are not appointed.

They made the threat by holding a "symbolic hanging" programme outside the National Museum in Dhaka's Shahbagh on Saturday.

The candidates have been protesting to get back their appointments for 24 days.

The primary and mass education ministry appealed against the High Court verdict that cancelled the recruitment of 6,531 assistant teachers in government primary schools in the two divisions.

The appeal hearing is scheduled for Sunday.

The candidates hope that the verdict of the Supreme Court's Ap...