CITU flays 'order' to bring workers to PM Modi's Mandi rally

Our Correspondent

Hamirpur, December 25

Forcing 40,000 employees to attend the Prime Minister’s rally will be a burden on the fund-starved state that was already reeling under debt of over Rs 65,000 crore.

This was stated by Kashmir Singh Thakur, national president of the Centre for Indian Trade Union, here today. He said CITU condemned the order of the government to bring 40,000 employees to the rally in government buses to Mandi. Thousands of employees would forcibly be brought to the rally.

He said a number of posts of doctor and nurse were vacant in hospitals but the government was least concerned.

The Jal Shakti Department was running with contract workers.

The government was unable to check corruption, he alleged.

The government should withdraw the order to bring the employees to the rally on December 27.

He said CITU members would hold a protest

near the rally site.