Panchayat workers gherao Collectorate

Nalgonda: Tension prevailed when the gram panchayath workers under the aegis of CITU leaders tried to enter Nalgonda District Collectorate Thursday.

As a part of the indefinite State wide strike by the panchayath workers, a large number of panchayath workers along with CITU leaders took out a huge rally from Ambedkar Bhavan to District Collectorate and raised slogans against the government and demanded salary hike and regularization of services.To intensify their strike, the panchayat workers launched the lay the siege of Collectrorate programme.

Addressing the gathering, CITU State vice president T Veera Reddy, panchayath workers state general secretary Yagna Naryana warned the government to intensify their stir, if their genuine demands were not addressed in a couple of days.

They expressed their concern over government indifference towards their problems them and suffering of villagers with stalled sanitation works. Scuffle took place between protestors and police when the former tried to enter into the Collectorate premises and cops arrested them to control the situation.

Lay siege to Collectorate programmes were also conducted in Suryapet and Yadadri- Bhongir districts and large number of workers participated in the protest demonstrations.