HYDERABAD: As many as 1,000 field assistants of MGNREGS, who were removed from the service recently, are planning to file nomination papers in the forthcoming Huzurabad bypoll. They held a Dharma Deeksha under the leadership of National Backward Classes Welfare Association president R Krishnaiah here on Wednesday. Krishnaiah said that as many as 7,651 field assistants working for MGNREGS were removed 17 months ago by the State government.
“If they are not taken back into services again, over 1,000 field assistants will file nominations in the forthcoming Huzurabad Assembly bypoll,” he declared. He said that the field assistants were already mobilising money for the caution deposit amounts and they were preparing to file the nominations in large numbers. He said that around 10,000 people including field assistants and their family members would campaign in the Huzurabad bypoll. The removal of the field assistants was Unconstitutional, he said. CPI leaders participated.