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Raghavan bares his mind on raise

Minister for Cooperation M.V. Raghavan could not have been more candid when he divulged his personal view on pay revision for cooperative bank employees, cleared by the State Government. Mr. Raghavan said he had not stood in the way of the employees getting a six to nine per cent hike, though he was sceptical about the financial strength of many banks to introduce the revised pay-scale. He was speaking at a function in Kannur to mark the end of the Cooperative Week celebration. Despite his positive attitude towards the employees' demand for a wage revision, the Minister said, he was the target of a protest by a group of staff in a district cooperative bank. Those protestors resorted to burning him in effigy, he said in a lighter vein.

"I am least concerned about somebody burning me in effigy,'' he said, pausing for a while.

"I started my political career by burning the then U.S. President, Richard Nixon, in effigy,'' he told the audience

Mohamed Nazeer

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