Former State President MLC and Jan Vignana Vedik KS Lakshman Rao on Tuesday urged people to resist attempts to privatize the steel plant Visakhapatnam (VSP) and handed over a piece of plants to private companies.
As part of a round table organized by human organizations led by Visakhu Okku Parirakshan Pormittee (Visakha Steel Plant Protection Committee Committee) in Vijayawada, Mr. Lakshman Rao demanded the abolition of EOI (terms) issued for privatization and declared the government of Andhra Pradesh to the center.
The leader of the farmer V. Keshava Rao pledged the support of farmers to fight workers.
State Secretary Cit Ch. Narasinga Rao claimed that the central government led by BJP accelerates privatization with the support of the coalition government in the state. He criticized that 11,440 GBP Crores assigned to revive the race was diverted to repay banking loans instead of production, development or good life conditions of workers.
He condemned the “violent” removal of 5,000 contracting workers in the race and demanded their restoration and also demanded employment for displaced families that gave the land for the race.
President Aituc R. Ravindranath accused the Center of “Pressing Privatization, while the state government continued to launch people who said there were no privatization plans. Yatra’s national bus, which mobilized public resistance, announced.
Minister Intuc Kranti Kumar demanded immediate assignment down in captivity of iron ore to VSP, instead of preferring Mittal Industries.
The meeting, chaired by the chairman of the Committee for the fight D. Adinarayan, adopted a resolution on the continuation of the protests until the privatization was downloaded, the prisoners of the prisoners to the VSP are secured, the EOI offers, rejected by contractual workers and attacks on employees stopped.
The leaders also decided to urge the coalition government led by TDP in the state to put pressure on the central government to drop its privatization step and start massive protests throughout the state.
On the round table, the leaders of trade unions, farmers’ associations, female groups, student and youth organizations participated.
Published – September 30, 2025 22:37
