Comrades of Punjab Circle under the leadership of Circle President Com. R.L.Moudgil and Circle Secretary Com. Balbir Singh are  fully prepared to face the verification and get a very good majority of the votes for BSNLEU. This is the message  that Com. V.A.N.Namboodiri, All India President got when he along with th above two comrades attended and addressed meetings at Patiala and Chandigarh on 17th January 2011.

The first meeting was held at Patiala at about 11.00 hours presided over by Com. Raghubir Singh. Com.Narindra Pal Sharma, District Secretary welcomed all. All the leaders were garlanded and honoured by the District Union leaders. Coms. Balbir Singh, Circle Secretary, R.L.Moudgil, Circle President, Naveen Yadav, Dist. Secretary, SNATTA, Ludhiana, Sadiq Ahmad  and other leaders addressed. Com.V.A.N.Namboodiri in his address mentioned about the grand achievements of the United Forum/BSNLEU in the last 6 years of recognition and also mentioned about the 40 points Charter of Demands adopted by the United Forum for settlement in the next two years. He also stated that BSNLEU had taken up the issues of all cadres in the past and will take the issues in the same way in future also. He stressed that the fight to save and strengthen BSNL will be taken as the foremost task by the union.

The next meeting was at Chandigarh, the capital city of Punjab. By the time the Circle and All India leaders reached, the meeting has started. Com.Namboodiri, All India President and other leaders were greeted by garlanding and shouting of slogans. The massive meeting participated by more than 700 workers and a large number of women employees was presided over by Com. Bhaglal. Coms. H.S.Dhillon  and Karan Chander, District Secretaries of Chandigarh SSA and CGM(O) respectively welcomed.  The meeting was addressed by Coms. R.L.Moudgil, Asst. General Secretary, Balbir Singh, Circle Secretary and other leaders. Com.V.A.N.Namboodiri in his detailed address spoke about the great achievements of the United Forum/BSNLEU in the last two years. The discrimination meted out to the non-executives in wage revision, Promotion Policy etc. in the past have been removed to a big extent. He explained the Charter of Demands adopted by the UF for the next two years. The largely attended meeting assured the leaders that the comrades of Punjab are fully with BSNLEU and will give a huge majority to it in the coming verification. In both the meetings a good number of DRTTAs attended and supported BSNLEU.