Monthly Archives: August 2016

Victory Meeting at Bikaner

01 Monday Aug 2016

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A grand meeting of BSNLEU, AIBDPA and BSNLCCWF was held at Bikaner on 30th July  2016 at the Conference hall of GM Office, Bikaner. A large number of pensioners were present.The meeting was presided over by District President Hem Nath Sidh, District President of BSNLEU Bikaner. All the leaders and guests were garlanded and welcomed. District Secretary Com. Gulam Hussain welcomed all. The meeting was addressed by Comrades Kamal Singh Gohil, Circle President, BSNLEU, Vijoy Singh, All India Org. Secretary, Ashok Pareek, Circle Secretary, J.P.Sharma, AIBDPA, Nihal Singh President AIBDPA, Rasheed Ahmed, Dist. Secretary AIBDPA and other leaders.

The meeting was also addressed by well known scientist Shri Sagar Dhara and Adv. Sajan Kumar, who spoke about the climate change and the necessity of maintaining the balance between nature and man.

Comrade V.A.N.Namboodiri, Patron BSNLEU, Advisor AIBDPA and President  BSNLCCWF spoke in detail about the great victory of BSNLEU in the membership verification, the demands of the BSNL employees, the need to revive BSNL, achievement of 78.2% IDA pension fixation for BSNL pensioners, demands of the casual and contract workers etc.

Bikaner District has won in the membership verification with huge majority. Many of the leaders at Bikaner, including Com.S.N.Nigal, who retired on 30th July 2016 and for whom a grand reception was given are  the founder leaders of of E.III(N) and BSNLEU. Com.VAN Namboodiri and other leaders also participated in the farewell meeting. A large number of comrade attended the farewell meeting also.

Bikaner is a citadel of BSNLEU in Rajasthan. Congratulations!

BSNL invests Rs. 7,000 crore upgradation and installation of mobile towers.

01 Monday Aug 2016

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CMD BSNL, Shri Anupam Shrivastava has stated that the PSU will invest Rs. 7,000 crore to install 21,000 mobile towers to improve the quality of service. However, he also pointed out that BSNL is number one company in reducing the call drops and will try further to improve the position. The number of towers will be increased to 5,000 with this addition.

BSNL is on the revival path due to the joint efforts of the workers and the management. The programme of “Service With A Smile” started by the Unions and Management has shown good results with more new mobile connections coming to BSNL that private companies.

The government should provide financial assistance at this stage to help the PSU to come up quickly.

Harkishan Singh Surjeet remembered.

01 Monday Aug 2016

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It is 8 years since Com. Harkishan Singh Surjeet, former General Secretary of CPI(M) and freedom fighter, passed away on 1st August 2008. He was in the forefront of the freedom struggle from his student days and had to face imprisonment many times.

The Central Government employees will remember him specially, since  his pressure on the then Central government, which was supported by the Left Parties, made the government to grant 40% fitment instead of 20%, which the V CPC has recommended.

He was always there to guide and advice the telecom employees movement and his support during the trying period of 1991-2000 when democracy was being butchered by the P&T administration and the reformist leadership of NFTE.

Our Red Salute to Com. Surjeet on his 8th death anniversary!

76th Martyrdom Anniversary of Shaheed Udham Singh

01 Monday Aug 2016

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There are thousands of martyrs who sacrificed their lives for the freedom of the 220px-Udhamcountry from the British colonialists. The name of Shaheed Udham Singh will be remembered along with that of Shaheed Bhagat Singh, in this respect.

Shaheed Udham Singh was hanged for killing Sir Michael O’ Dwyer, Lt. Governor of Punjab, who was responsible for the 1919 Jallianwallabagh massacre in which hundreds of people were killed. Shaheed Udham Singh was hanged on 31st July 1940. He was only 41 years old.

Udham Singh Nagar District in Uttarakhand is named after Shaheed Udham Singh.

Respectful Homage to the memory of one of the great martyrs of the country!

 

 

Dismissal of First Communist Ministry in Kerala, 1959

01 Monday Aug 2016

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It was on 31st July 1959 that the Jawaharlal Nehru government dismissed the democratically elected Communist Government of Kerala. There was no valid reason or justification for invoking Article 356 by the Centre for the dismissal. Com.EMS Namboodiripad government elected in 1957, within two years of its rule, had passed many important pro-people legislations like Land Bill, Education Bill etc. which benefitted the common people in a large way. This was not acceptable to the feudal, communal and Congress leaders, who thought that such pro-people laws will make their coming back impossible. They started a Vimochan Samara and pressurised the centre to dismiss the government. It was disclosed later by the then US Ambassador to India that funds were given to the Vimochana Samara leaders for organising agitation. It was thus that the first Communist ministry in the country was dismissed.

The present Modi Government is also trying to torpedo the state governments ruled by other political parties, as in Uttarakhand and Arunachal Pradesh. The Congress Party, which cries foul against these dismissals should remember that it was the Congress Party itself which started this process of arbitrary dismissals of state governments, while it was in power.

In Kerala, again the Communists have won and formed government under Com. Pinarayi Vijayan as Chief Minister. The right wing parties as also the communal forces are once again trying to create trouble for the peaceful governance in the state. But it will not succeed. Times have changed.