HYDERABAD: Even as AP and Telangana governments are at loggerheads over various issues, the repatriation of over 1,200 employees of TSGENCO, who are natives of AP, reached the doorstep of Governor ESL Narasimhan on Monday.
The AP Electricity Trade Unions met the Governor at the Raj Bhavan and complained against the TS government’s attitude towards the 1,200 employees, who are working in the TSGENCO. They told the Governor that though the High Court had stayed their repatriation, the TS government was not honouring the verdict.
Stating that the decision of the TS government was against the spirit of the AP Reorganisation Act, they urged the Governor to direct the KCR dispensation to reinstate the employees in their earlier positions with immediate effect. Later, speaking to reporters, the leaders said the Governor had promised to look into the matter and speak to the TS government.
Meanwhile, AP Social Welfare Minister Ravela Kishore Babu took exception to the Telangana government’s act of relieving over 1,200 AP employees working in TSGENCO and alleged that it was done in violation of Section 82 of the AP Reorganisation Act. He minister urged the Centre to direct the Governor to intervene and use powers vested with him under the AP Reorganisation Act.
Speaking to reporters, Kishore Babu alleged that though the High Court had stayed the relieving of TSGENCO employees, the TS government had ignored the court’s order. “TS government is taking unilateral decisions in all matters. It is troubling the AP government. By relieving the employees, the TS government has put them in trouble as AP government is not in a position to accommodate them immediately. Now they cannot go to TSGENCO or APGENCO,” he said.
