During my visit to Kolkata to attend the Open Session of National Conference of the Confederation of Central Government Employees and Workers on 4th May 2013, a meeting was organised by BSNLEU at the CTO Hall, which was participated by a large number of workers. Com. Sunir Sennel presided and circle Secretaries Coms. Animesh Mitra (W.Bengal and Dy. GS), Saibal Sen Gupta (Kolkata), Om Prakash (TF) and Adhir Kumar sen (Telecom Stores)  addressed. Com. Tapas Ghosh, General secretary BSNLCCWF also spoke.

In my speech, I congratulated the workers of all these four circles who have held the red flag of the union very  high in the recent membership verification and have achieved mor than 66% of the total votes in favour of BSNLEU. I spoke in detail about the post-verification situation when there are two recognised unions and also representations of more than one union in the negotiating councils. The decision of the Forum of BSNL Unions on the revival of BSNL, on achieving 78.2% IDA fixation etc. were also briefed. The issues of casual and contract workers with specific mention of regularisation of casual labour and the agitation in W.Bengal was appreciated.

In the evening a meeting of the leaders of the casual and contract workers federation was held and it was decided that the Memorandum of Demands finalised by the BSNLCCWF Central Executive Committee should be submitted to the CGMs in June with massive participation.