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Kerala ASHA Health Workers’ Association (KAHWA) connected Saturday met Chief Minister-designate V.D. Satheesan to punctual him astir his pre-poll committedness of a solution to their grievances and expressed anticipation that the caller authorities would code their issues connected priority.
The Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs), the grassroots-level voluntary wellness workers of the Health department, staged months-long protestation past twelvemonth to rise assorted demands, including an summation successful their honorarium.
“The CM-designate said that helium volition not hide the connection that helium gave us, portion we were connected the 266-day-long onslaught demanding just wages and status benefits. He was 1 of the governmental leaders who openly said that our demands were just and assured america unstinted enactment and we look guardant to bully days up ,” KAHWA wide caput M.A Bindu said.
In galore ways, station elections, the ASHAs onslaught is being progressively seen arsenic 1 of the symbolic moments wherever the Left mislaid its motivation crushed amongst the public, grassroots-level workers and adjacent the accepted Left enactment base. The images of these lowly paid women wellness workers, including aged women, sitting successful beforehand of the Secretariat braving the elements had been excessively poignant to brushwood away.
As the Leader of the Opposition, 1 of the promises that Mr. Satheesan had made, portion visiting the agitating ASHAs successful beforehand of the Secretariat was that the request of ASHAs for enhanced honorarium would beryllium taken up successful the archetypal Cabinet, if the UDF were to travel to powerfulness successful the upcoming elections.
Though the CPI(M) has ne'er formally acknowledged it, aft the party’s predetermination debacle, galore successful the Left campy had openly raised the disapproval that the Pinarayi Vijayan government’s handling of the ASHAs onslaught had been insensitive and “hostile”.
The UDF had succeeded successful making the ASHA agitation and the antagonistic and ‘anti-worker” sentiments surrounding the onslaught a sustained taxable against the Left successful the predetermination campaign.
