Dhaka, Nov. 24 -- BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Monday said the interim government's indifference to the movement of non-MPO teachers is shameful.

"Education in Bangladesh is no longer the backbone of the nation; rather, it has become the nation's illness. That is exactly what it seems when we see the indifference of the government and the administration to the teachers' ongoing movement," he said.

Rizvi made the remarks in front of the National Press Club while expressing solidarity with teachers staging a sit-in demanding the inclusion of all government-recognised non-Monthly Pay Order educational institutions under the MPO system.

He said educated people and teachers from schools, colleges, and madrasas hav...