Sacked RAMSA workers accuse MPs of inaction

DEHRADUN: Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan RAMSA workers led by Praveen Ramola today staged a dharna at the Congress Bhawan Dehradun urging the Congress leadership in the state to take up their issues and concerns with the Centre

Updated At : 06:49 AM Apr 11, 2015 IST

<p>RAMSA workers hold a protest against their retrenchment at the Congress Bhawan in Dehradun on Friday. Tribune photo: Vinod Pundir</p>

Tribune News Service

Dehradun, April 10

Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RAMSA) workers led by Praveen Ramola today staged a dharna at the Congress Bhawan, Dehradun, urging the Congress leadership in the state to take up their issues and concerns with the Centre.

The protesters accused all the five BJP MPs from Uttarakhand in the Lok Sabha of failing to take up their concerns with the Centre. State Congress president Kishore Upadhyay, who also met the demonstrators at the Congress Bhawan, assured them that he would take up the matter with the Chief Minister. The protesters raised anti-Modi and anti-BJP slogans.

The Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan was started by the UPA Government earlier to promote education in various states. The campaign was discontinued by the BJP government soon after it came to power at the Centre. The RAMSA workers were sacked by the government and since then they had been holding protests demanding re-employment.