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By Our Special Correspondent
TIRUPATI. Feb. 24. Commercial and banking activities were thrown out of gear in Tirupati with employees of banks, insurance companies, telecommunication and postal departments and other Central and State Government organisations boycotting duties and joining the all-India general strike called by the National Convention of Trade Unions protesting against the scrapping of the right to strike by the Apex Court. NGOs also joined the strike under the banner of the Joint Action Committee and took out a rally as did Government workers. Processions by one union or other with activists holding placards and banners filled the streets of the town till noon while anti-Government and pro-worker slogans rent the air. Unions leaders addressed workers' meeting at several places decrying the Government's anti-employees attitude and the SC's verdict against the constitutionally-guaranteed right to strike. They demanded the immediate review of the judgement and derided the Government's penchant for privatisation of even profit-making PSUs. The CPI(M) and CPI cadres led by their district leaders took out an impressive rally. The CPI(M) Secretary, K. Murali, in a release claimed that while work remained paralysed in the Collectorate at Chittoor, normal working was affected in the divisional headquarters town of Tirupati, Chittoor and Madanapalle with NGOs boycotting duties. Among those who joined the strike were bank employees under the banner of `United Forum of Bank Unions' comprising unions like AIBEA, NCBE, AIBOC, AIBOA and BEFI. All India Insurance Employees Union, AP Medical and Sales Representatives Union, A.P. Panchayat Secretaries Association, Tirupati Municipal Workers Union also participated. Police patrolled the streets to prevent any untoward incident.
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