Karnataka - Gulbarga   

Daily wage workers plan indefinite fast

Special Correspondent

GULBARGA: More than 17,000 daily wage employees working in different government and quasi-government departments, along with their family members, will begin an indefinite fast in front of the official residence of Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy on November 27 demanding regularisation of service.

Chandrasekhar Hiremath, president of the Karnataka State Government Scheduled Caste and Tribe Daily Wage Employees Association, told presspersons here on Thursday that the indefinite fast would continue till their demand was met.

Mr. Hiremath, who has been spearheading the agitation by the daily wage employees for more than two years, said that he would tour the state from November 8 to muster support for the agitation.

He would also hold talks with other organisations, including the Hubli-based Karnataka Daily Wage Employees Federation, to seek their cooperation.

Criticising what he termed the indifferent attitude of the State Government, Mr. Hiremath said the daily wage employees had called off their relay fast for 489 days in Gulbarga after the Chief Minister, in July, promised to regularise their services and sought 30 days to fulfil the demand. Mr. Hiremath claimed that a section of senior officials who were not in favour of regularisation of services were misleading the Chief Minister and the Cabinet on the Supreme Court judgment on the regularisation of daily wage employees. Regularisation could be done as a one-time measure, he said.

Mr. Hiremath said the Government was regularising the services of some daily wage employees based on the individual petitions filed in the Karnataka High Court. The Government should give up this piecemeal approach and regularise all the daily wage employees, he added.

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