Political parties blow bugle for SCCL trade union polls

Hyderabad: Major political parties, the TRS, Congress and TDP TS unit have blown the bugle for elections for recognised trade union in Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL). The TPCC chief N Uttam Kumar Reddy announced on Sunday that the TPCC would organise a yatra in the coal belt after September 10. Not to be left behind, the TDP TS unit also announced that its affiliated trade union, TNTUC will jump into the poll battle.

According to TDP party spokesperson E Peddi Reddy, the TNTUC will hold meetings with workers of Singareni Collieries at Bhupalpally on September 14 and 15, at Mandamararri on September 16 and at Godavarikhani on September 17. These meetings would be addressed by the paraty’s state president L Ramana and working president A Revanth Reddy.

Interestingly, both the Congress affiliated union INTUC and TDP union TNTUC have decided to focus their campaign on the issue of reviving dependent job scheme and how the government had mishandled the issue. Ramana and Revanth Reddy held a meeting with the members of TNTUC at NTR Trust Bhavan in city on Sunday and discussed the Action Plan with the workers.

Another issue that would form part of the trade union poll campaign would be failure of the TRS government to set up a super speciality hospital for the coal mine workers. Non-closure of open cast mines is another issue on which both the parties want to campaign. Peddi Reddy said the draft voters list would be released on September 1 and the campaign would begin immediately.