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AITUC condemns encroachment on Chandanappally estate

Staff Reporter

Says it is aimed at destroying a public sector unit

REGISTERING PROTEST: A group of encroachers belonging to the Sadhu Jana Vimochana Samyukta Vedi airing their protests to the Revenue officials who visited them at Vakayar-Elappupara on Wednesday afternoon.

PATHANAMTHITTA: The All-India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) has strongly condemned the encroachment of the Chandanappally rubber estate of the State Plantation Corporation, near Konni, by the Sadhu Jana Vimochana Samyukta Vedi on Tuesday night.

In a statement issued here on Wednesday, AITUC district secretary M.V.Vidyadharan has alleged that the Vedi workers had encroached upon the rubber plantation, which has been the bread-donor for the families of thousands of poor plantation workers in the locality.

Mr Vidyadharan has alleged that the encroachment of the Chandanappally Estate within a month of the Left Democratic Front (LDF) assuming power in the State was a challenge against the working class.

He has alleged that the Vedi's act was aimed at destroying a public sector unit, which has been the bread-provider for thousands of plantation workers.

It was ironical that the Vedi that has made loud proclamation of protecting the interests of the downtrodden sections of society had consciously spared hundreds of acres of "revenue-forest land which was brought under the illegal possession of certain private entrepreneurs during the previous UDF rule" while prompting its followers to encroach into the rubber estate of the Plantation Corporation, the AITUC leader alleged.

The AITUC leader has alleged a big conspiracy behind the encroachment of the Plantation Corporation land and the trade union would organise agitation to expose the Vedi's evil designs.

The AITUC district council has also called upon the workers to fight against any move that threatens the job security of the plantation workers. AITUC district president Mundappally Thomas presided the meeting. Trade union leaders Vilangupara Sukumaran, K.N.Purushothaman, among others spoke.

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