TIRUPATI: The row over the controversial G.O. 94, which allegedly sought to permit plying of private fleet on 55 routes in the district in the place of the APSRTC buses, continues unabated with the RTC staff unions and the all-party JAC taking the cudgels against the Government.

Double speak

While the CPI held a relay hunger-strike at the busy Four-Pillar Mandapam junction here, activists of the National Mazdoor Union (NMU), wearing black-badges, held angry demonstrations before the depots denouncing the decision more so when none of the routes identified for privatisation were loss-making ones.

The agitating CPI leaders and union functionaries were critical of the Congress Government for what they called its `double speak' -- saying one while in opposition and doing the diametrically opposite when in power and warned that it would also meet the same fate as the TDP if it continued to play truant with the lives of the working class.

Revoke orders

They also wanted the Government to immediately revoke its order, which reportedly extended the jurisdiction of the town services, from the present 8 to 25 kms as it would be detrimental to the interests of the RTC.

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