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Left leaders term KCR a fascist
Left leaders term KCR a fascist. Declaring solidarity to the agitating municipal sanitation workers, the ten Left parties headed by CPI(M) State secretary Tammineni Veerabhadram began a mass relay hunger strike on Wednesday.
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Hyderabad: Declaring solidarity to the agitating municipal sanitation workers, the ten Left parties headed by CPI(M) State secretary Tammineni Veerabhadram began a mass relay hunger strike on Wednesday. The relay hunger strike was attended by thousands of municipal workers at Dharna Chowk near Indira Park in Hyderabad.
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Addressing the workers, Veerabhadram said the demands of sanitation workers, who played a pivotal role during Swacch Hyderabad and Swacch Telangana programmes, were justified. The leaders opined that the Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao was behaving like a fascist by deploying police and military to foil the strike. They alleged that the government, instead of building confidence in the workers, was threatening the workers.
They warned that the government would face severe consequences if the issue was not solved in three days. They also said they were ready to come for the talks on behalf of municipal workers in order to settle the issue. They felt that the city was stinking and the State had already turned into a dump yard as 45,000 civic workers were keeping off duties.
Addressing the massive crowd, Veerabhadram came down heavily on the government for not reacting to the strike issue. He lamented that municipal workers were not terrorists for deploying military and police to control them. “If the government is ready to fulfill the demands of workers if they call off the strike, why not accept them immediately so that they can call off the strike?” he asked. He also requested other unions to go on a one-day strike to express solidarity to the municipal workers.
Party politburo member B V Raghavulu said it was unfortunate that though a labour union leader was heading the Labour ministry, their problems were not getting resolved. CPI (ML) New Democracy leader Sadineni Venkateshwarlu said Chandrashekar Rao was showering grants only to people above middle class but not to the poor.
He alleged that the Chief Minister only equated the municipal workers with gods for publicity and was giving crores of rupees to the gods who did not ask for it where he was not willing to grant funds for the Pratyaksha Devulu (visible gods).
Meanwhile, Congress leaders including Batti Vikramarka, Anjan Kumar Yadav, MRPS leader Manda Krishna Madiga, rights activist Prof Kancha Ilaiah and many others expressed solidarity to the municipal workers. However, late in the evening, the police stopped the hunger strike by arresting the fasting leaders and shifting them to hospital.
