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PRP demands solution for jute workers’ woes

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Workers gherao management representatives
Police use force to disperse the workers

VIZIANAGARAM: While expressing solidarity with the agitating Nellimarla Jute Mill workers, the Praja Rajyam Party has threatened to intensify the agitation if the government did not intervene to solve the workers’ demands.

At a press conference here on Monday, the party district convenor Merupula Venkataramana alleged that Minister for Botcha Satyanarayna had been acting hand in glove with the management and was not bothered to find a solution to over 110-days-old strike. He said that the PRP would launch direct action if the problem was not addressed in the next three or four days.

Condemn arrests

He also condemned the arrests of IFTU leaders P. Prasad and K. Sanyasi Rao, Jute workers’ union leader Boni Satyanarayana and CITU leader K. Rama Rao on Sunday night and demanded their release on bail immediately.

The jute workers gheraoed the management representatives from morning till late in the night demanding that they be paid salary for the 19 days work done in September but the management had agreed to pay 50 per cent of wages only after K. Koteswara Rao, Vizianagarm DSP, held conciliatory talks. When the workers did not agree to the offer and continue their protest the police used force to disperse them.

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