On Tarigami’s intervention, contractors end hunger strike Valley contractors who begun their 36 hour long hunger strike here on Saturday, today called off the strike on the intervention of CPI (M) state secretary, MuhammadYusuf Tarigami. “Tarigami Sahab has assured us that he will takeup our demands and problems with the government at higher levels after which we decided the call off the hunger strike. However, if the government fails to fulfill our demands by June 20, we will as per our programme suspend work on all projects going on across the state”, Jammu and Kashmir Contractors’ Central Coordination Committee President Farooq Ahmad Dar told KNS. Meanwhile, calling for urgent payment of dues to contractors, opposition parties today castigated the government accusing itof failing on all fronts. Theytermed the contractors agitation as a just struggle for securing their rights. Main opposition People’s Democratic Party while accusing the government of playing foul with the contractors said the contractors’ demands should be fulfilled and theirdues paid at the earliest. “Nobody will go on a hunger strike for no reason. Their dues have been withheld basically because the central government reduced state’s annual plan for year2012-13 by 2000 crore rupees as a penalty as the state government failed to utilize bulk of the funds. The government has been getting un-sanctioned works executed through the contractors and then leave them in the lurch to fend for themselves”, PDP Chief Spokesman Nayeem Akhter told KNS.
Posted on: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 15:23:34 +0000
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