Even because the protesting Punjab Authorities workers’ unions proceed to garner assist from different unions and federations, one in every of their outstanding leaders, Sukhchain Singh Khera, has been transferred by the state authorities from the Administration Department within the Punjab Civil Secretariat to the Planning Department positioned exterior the Secretariat.
“I or every other chief of the Union is not going to succumb to the federal government stress of rolling again the protests. I’ve been transferred to make sure my presence within the Secretariat is minimal,” Khera advised The Tribune. On Sunday, the union leaders had introduced that every one workers of Punjab Authorities will go on mass informal depart once more on September 8, after affecting a profitable mass informal depart protest on August 27.
The switch of Khera, who is without doubt one of the most outstanding voices of the protesting workers, follows the earlier orders of the state authorities to quell the protest by its 4 lakh workers and three.50 lakh pensioners. On August 27, when lakhs of workers of the state authorities proceeded on mass informal depart to press the federal government to launch their pending DA instalments, fulfill the promise to revert to Outdated Pension Scheme and for different service associated points, the federal government had first requested its officers to organize lists of workers who availed depart on the day of protests and later requested them to difficulty these protesting workers showcause notices for alleged “unauthorised depart”.
Now, the Punjab Authorities has determined to maneuver the Supreme Courtroom of India in opposition to the Punjab and Haryana Excessive Courtroom order asking the state authorities to launch the pending DA dues.
In the meantime, All India State Authorities Staff Federation has thrown its weight behind Punjab authorities workers, going through risk of show-cause notices for collaborating within the August 27 mass informal depart. The federation has warned that any punitive motion in opposition to the protesters might set off nationwide protests in opposition to the AAP Authorities.
Federation nationwide president Subhash Lamba has condemned the Punjab Authorities’s determination to difficulty notices to workers who stayed away from work as a part of the agitation, terming it an ‘try to intimidate workers and curb their democratic proper to protest.’
Lamba stated the federation would launch a nationwide agitation if the Punjab Authorities initiated disciplinary motion in opposition to any worker who participated within the protest. He stated the August 27 strike was not a sudden growth and had adopted a number of phases of agitation and prior notices to the federal government.
