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The CPI(M) Andhra Pradesh State Committee connected Sunday powerfully condemned Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu for what it described arsenic “threatening and intimidating” Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP) workers by invoking the PD Act.
In a statement, State Secretary V. Srinivasa Rao said it was “highly inappropriate” for the Chief Minister to dispersed misinformation and mislead the nationalist with “half-truths and falsehoods.”
Referring to a caller circular issued by the VSP absorption that links workers’ wages to accumulation levels, Mr. Rao said the determination would lone deepen uncertainty among the workforce. He asserted that the VSP’s fiscal losses were the effect of authorities policies, the deficiency of captive mines, and administrative failures—factors unrelated to idiosyncratic performance. “Shifting the blasted onto workers for problems arising from governance failures is unacceptable,” helium said.
The CPI(M) person besides criticised Mr. Naidu for offering immense incentives to industrialists portion threatening that hardworking labourers “could beryllium jailed nether the PD Act.” This, helium said, intelligibly revealed “whose broadside the authorities is on.”
Rejecting the Chief Minister’s assertion that the VSP had gone to the BIFR, Mr. Rao said the connection was factually incorrect and intended to mislead the nationalist with outdated information. He besides reiterated that, dissimilar different alloy plants crossed the state allotted captive mines, the VSP has been consistently denied the aforesaid facility.
Asserting that workers’ movements demanding wages, occupation security, oregon different ineligible rights are protected nether the Constitution, helium said the Chief Minister’s menace to invoke the PD Act against them was “reprehensible.” “Instead of acknowledging these realities,” helium added, “the authorities is unfairly targeting workers with baseless accusations.”
