How Long Will Government Let RTC Strike Continue, Asks Congress

Sangareddy MLA and Congress leader Toorpu Jayaprakash Reddy alias Jagga Reddy on Wednesday expressed distress that the RTC workers had been on strike for 40 days now.

Recalling that Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao had said on many occasions that there would be no suicides by people after statehood for Telangana, Reddy said that the State was witnessing a lot of suicides by farmers and RTC employees.

Reddy expressed his surprise over the adamant attitude of the State government in not taking any action on the issue even after the High Court had passed strictures against it, and said that he was clueless about how long the strike would continue given this recalcitrance.

He claimed that the RTC employees were suffering from different kinds of health problems due to not being paid any more, and said that one of them, an employee named Naresh, had committed suicide due to financial problems.

He said that there appeared to be no value for the grievances of the workers in the State. Stating that there was no trace of support from employees' unions' leaders like Swamy Goud, Mamata Ravinder Reddy, C Devi Prasad and Srinivas Goud, who was now a minister, he alleged that these leaders were toeing the line of the Chief Minister and keeping mum on the RTC issue.