Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Railway Employees to Seek Prajarajyam Party Ticket

Railway employees are getting ready to contest on the Prajarajyam Party ticket from 11 Assembly constituencies, Railway Mazdoor Union general secretary Taranikanti Srinivas has said.

He said railway employees would ask the PRP leadership to field railway employees from Vijayawada Central (Satyanarayanapuram), Nandigama (reserved), Bapatla (Guntur district) and Ramachandrapuram (East Godavari) constituencies. The decision was taken at the general body meeting here on Sunday. D. Eswara Rao was elected zonal working president, M. Sairam station branch secretary and M.V. Krishna Rao Railway Hospital branch convener a the meeting. Mr. Srinivasa Rao said the creation of ‘mega railway colonies’, creation of a ‘mega railway cooperative bank’, scrapping of professional tax for railway employees, amendments to Workers’ Act and Trade Union Act, 1926, and executive powers to trade unions were some issues which Mr. Chiranjeevi favoured.

Source :Jai chiru

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