| Harsh Dev appeals Contractuals, DRWs, Casuals to vote and support | | |
Kathua,04-04-2019: Making a fervent appeal to all the Contractual employees, DRWs and casuals to support NPP in the Lok Sabha elections, Mr. Harsh Dev Singh Chairman JKNPP and former Minister said that only Panthers can liberate the lower rung employees from miseries and provide them succour to live with dignity and honour. “Both Congress and BJP has exploited the youth of Jammu region for petty wages by treating them like slaves. We have been fighting for your rights from the roads of Jammu to the corridors of New Delhi holding several protests at Jantar Mantar and outside the Parliament", asserted Harsh. He was addressing trail of public meetings at Ramkot, Challan, Gujroo Nagrota, Thara Kalyal, Gural Kalyal, Mandli, Finter, Billawar, Katli, Mahanpur, Basholi in Kathua segment of Udhampur Parliamentary constituency here today.
Addressing the gatherings, Mr. Harsh Dev Singh lampooned the Saffron slogan of ‘Achey Din’ as a cruel joke sprinkling salts on the wounds of the protesting youth who were often batton charged by the police during the dark rule of sinister combine. “While the families of such employees were pushed to starvation, the power intoxicated ex-Saffron MLA’s had doubled their salaries and other perks in one voice during their tenure”, lamented Harsh. Flaying the suppression and exploitation of lower rung employees by the erstwhile coalition, Mr. Harsh Dev Singh regretted that BJP with whom the underemployed youth had pinned high hopes, grossly failed to release the long pending wages and regularize the services of DRWs, Need based workers, Casual labourers working in various government departments including PHE, PDD, PWD, I&FC, H&ME, Forest, Agriculture, TDAs, Social Welfare besides other lower rung employees.
Anguished over the exploitation of NHRM employees, Mr. Harsh Dev Singh said that these employees included doctors, ASHA &Anganwadi workers, paramedics and managerial staff who were working tirelessly and selflessly on paltry wages despite all the difficulties they were confronted with. He said that instead of acknowledging their contribution in the implementation of rural health mission and improvement of health status of the poor especially of mothers and infants in the villages, the State government was treating them like expendables. Supporting further the cause of MG-NREGA employees working on contractual basis for the last around 10 years since the launch of the flagship scheme in the state, he said that thousands of highly qualified youth had been engaged under the scheme by the Rural Development Deptt as Programme Officers, Technical Assistants, GRS, MIS operators, Accounts Assistants, Social Auditors and Adm. Assistants on consolidated basis without revising their salaries or framing any policy with respect to their regularization. Expressing solidarity with the plus two contractual lecturers sitting on chain hunger strike for more than 2 years, he said that the protestors seeking regularization included majority of female candidates with PhD’s, MPhils who had been rendering their services with zeal and honesty in schools on paltry salary. Several of them have been ruthlessly terminated under BJP rule, rued Harsh.
“Vote and support Panthers in Lok Sabha polls. You all will be set free from the clutches of exploitative enslavement. We assure you with conviction”, urged appealed the aggrieved employees.
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