All-party trade unions, People’s Organization for Protection of Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP) and Joint Action Committee (JAC) of Public Sector Units (PSUs) resolved to intensify the movement against privatization of VSP in a round table meeting held in public. have taken. Library here on Monday.
The participants condemned the adamant attitude of the Center in going ahead with its decision on the strategic sale of VSP, though there were agitations across the state for the last 10 months against the decision. JAC has been organizing relay hunger strike for the last 200 days to reverse the VSP’s decision to privatize the Gandhi statue and stop the privatization of other PSUs in the country.
signature campaign
The JAC also resolved to organize a campaign to collect one crore signatures and appealed to all sections of people to participate in the campaign and express their displeasure against the decision of the BJP government. The participants demanded that all Municipal Corporations, Municipalities, Zilla Parishads and Mandal Parishads adopt resolutions against the sale of VSPs and sought cooperation of all political parties and mass organizations in this regard.
He said resolutions opposing the Centre’s decision have already been adopted in the state assembly and the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC). He wondered how the BJP government, which had failed to implement the assurances given to the state in the Andhra Pradesh Reorganization Act, 2014, could even think of selling off heavy industry in the state alone. He alleged that the Center has not allotted private mines to VSPs for the purpose of handing over to corporate groups.
The meeting also resolved to organize a rally with students and youth from Smt. AVN College to Old Head Post Office Junction on November 1 and organize seminars in all districts of the state to make people aware.
The meeting was presided over by JAC President M. Jaggu Naidu.
CITU State President Ch. Narsing Rao, FDNA General Secretary A. Aja Sarma, UFBU convener A. Sushma, Writers Academy President VV Ramana Murthy, VJF President Gantala Srinu Babu, INTUC General Secretary Neerukonda Ramachandra Rao, CFTUI National President N. Kanaka Rao, PAV leader T. Kameswara Rao and CITU city president RKSV Kumar were among those who attended.
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