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Leader of Opposition and DMK Convenor R. Siva has called upon the Lieutenant Governor to contented due orders to regularise long-serving casual labourers employed connected a daily-wage ground by the gram panchayats.
Speaking astatine a hunger onslaught organised precocious by the employees demanding regularisation, Mr. Siva said respective of these regular wage workers had been engaged by the panchayat for astir 15 years without regularising their service.
Around 196 gram panchayat employees, who person been working as daily wage labourers since 2011, person been staging protests demanding occupation regularisation. However, the authorities has turned a deaf receptor to their morganatic demand, Mr. Siva said.
Hence the DMK person sought the Lt. Governor’s involution connected the issue. DMK co-convener and legislator Annibal Kennedy and MLA R. Senthil Kumar were among those who addressed the protesters.
