Stategovernment employees, who pressed their demands unitedly before, are nowdivided on regional lines, with the APNGOs association and TNGOs planningseparate agitational programmes. They also levelled charges against each other.
Theonly common point in their respective demands is constitution of the 10th PayRevision Commission (PRC). Additionally, the TNGOs demanded lifting of casesagainst Telangana employees who participated in the Sakala Janula Samme.
TelanganaNGOs served a strike notice on chief secretary Minnie Mathew on Friday eveningand said they would go on an indefinite strike after March 20. Declaring theirown programme, the APNGOs said they were fighting for their demands and notagainst Telangana. APNGOs will organise Challo Hyderabad on March 2.
However,TNGOs say the proposed rally by APNGOs was aimed against Telangana andsponsored by Seemandhra leaders.
“After the SakalaJanula Samme, TNGOs and APNGOs decided to fight unitedly on employees’problems. But, the APNGOs took a different stand now,” alleged TNGO president VSrinivasa Goud. Goud said they would not take things lying down. “Even afterthe Telangana state is formed, Seemandhra employees and their wards should livein Telangana. Will the Seemandhra leaders be able to protect them in Telanganastate?” Goud asked. He wanted APNGOs not to launch a Samaikyandhra agitation inthe guise of fighting for employees’ problems. “Let us all fight for theemployees’ cause in a cordial atmosphere,” Goud appealed to APNGOs. However,APNGOs’ president V Gopal Reddy clarified that their agitation was only forsolving their problems and not a counter-stir to TNGO agitation.