Implement pay revision, YSRCP tells State

YSR Congress has demanded that the TDP Government should bring the on-going strike by sanitation workers to an end through negations and said that it has been using certain legal provisions to settle political scores instead of the intended purpose.

“The Chief Minister who has become a negotiator of late, could draw the compromise in the tussle between a government officer and his Party MLA but has no interest in settling the long pending demands of the sanitation workers,” party senior leader Botsa Satyanarayana told reporters here on Monday.

Our Party has expressed solidarity with the employees on strike demanding pay revision, and we demand the State to settle the issue by conceding to their just demands.

TDP has been using the provision of SC ST Atrocities (Prevention) Act as a tool to settle political scores instead of making its use in the right spirit to safeguard the interests of the weaker sections, he said.

The trend was set much earlier by TDP and is put into force with the arrest of our Party MLA Bhuma Nagi Reddy on flimsy grounds and followed it up at Tuni yesterday when our Party MLA has complained to the officials that the sand mafia is on the prowl and is illegally mining it at a field.

“Though it was the MLA who has alerted the officials against the smugglers, who happen to be the ruling party workers, the officials have turned the tables and booked a case under the provision of SC ST Atrocities Act against him.

This shows the agenda of the TDP and the hidden signal of Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu when he told the first Collectors Conference to give a free hand to TDP workers,” he said.

“We will not allow such bullying and will fight it out,” he said.