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Today, I got the opportunity to meet some former senior leaders of the LIC Employees Union (AIIEA), with whom I had worked together when I was in Calicut before I shifted to Delhi in 1991, after being elected as the President of All India Telecom Employees Union Class III.
I was invited to inaugurate the 41st Divisional Conference of LIC Employees Union being held at Calicut on 19-20 May 2013. I gladly accepted the same since it was a pleasure to meet our LIC comrades. I inaugurated the open session, which was also addressed by Coms. M.Kunhikrishnan, Vice-President, AIIEA, Senthil Kumar, C.Achuthan, K.K.C.Pillai, Ajayan and others. From BSNLEU Com. Surendran greeted the Conference. In my speech, among other issues, I mentioned about the close relation between the AIIEA and BSNLEU all these years.
In the Conference, I could meet veteran leaders of the LIC Employees Union and now office-bearers of the LIC Pensioners Association, including Com. C.Achuthan, K.K.C.Pillai, Sukumaran Punnassery, Bhaskarsan and Kazmi. We spent some time remembering old times. We remembered coms. A.Kunhiraman Nair, M.T.Karthikeyan and K.C.Prabhakran who are no more.
I met the new young leaders Coms. Biju and krishnan and also many comrades who were in LIC earlier.
A nice day indeed.
VAN Namboodiri's Blog 
Dear comrade,
i am informed by our kozhikode comrades that your particiaption and inagural address have enthused our rank and file. We are having our SZ conference at Chennai in the first week of August and Com Chellappa is in reception committee.
K SWAMINATHAN General secretary SZIEF (AIIEA)
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Thank You Com. Swaminathan. In fact, I have a long association with AIIEA and specially with the Calicut Division since its inception in 1973. In building BSNLEU all over India our comrades in AIIEA had given excellent support. As you may be aware, BSNLEU formation conference in 2001 was inaugurated by Com. N.M.Sundaram, then General secretary of AIIEA. I also got chance to attend AICs of AIIEA including that held at Kanpur and New Delhi. All of us would like to keep this close relation and improve it. With Greetings, VAN Namboodiri