ITANAGAR, Sep 23:  All the units of Arunachal Pradesh College Teachers' Association (APCTA) organised a silent sit-in protest across all government colleges in the state expressing solidarity with the traumatised teachers of the Donyi Polo Government College, (DPGC), Kamki. 
The APCTA has also lent support to the Pen-down strike by the DPGC against the terrorising act against teachers by a student identified as Sokli Bogo of BA V Semester (Political Science major), after losing the college' students' union election for the post of General Secretary.
Few of the placards read "Save our self respect and integrity", "Teachers are not scapegoats", "Stop turning college campuses in war zones", "we teach, we care, thou be fair", "Violence has no place in civilised society",  " I am not angry, I am disappointed".
The President of APCTA, Associate Professor  Narmi Darang from Jawaharlal Nehru College, Pasighat said he was hopeful of early mitigation of all four demands against violence staged by few unscrupulous students and outsiders at DPGC on the night of September 19. 
Expressing her satisfaction over the silent sit-in peaceful protest all over Arunachal Pradesh by all the government colleges,  Associate Professor Tumbom Riba, General Secretary of APCTA from Dera Natung Government College, Itanagar thanked all the units and categorically said  "APCTA stands united as a family and will not allow any injustice to happen to any member."
The Doimukh Government College and Rangfrah Government College, Changlang also declared one day pen-down protest as a show of support.
The Arunachal Pradesh Technical Teachers' Association (APTTA) has also strongly condemned the incident. 
We extend our full support to the teaching fraternity of DPGC. Such kind of uncivilized activities by students are disheartening. It affects not only the age-old harmony between teacher-student but also affects the sanctity of educational institutions, be it technical or non-technical, it said urging higher authorities to immediately take necessary action against the culprits.

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