A day after the roaring success of Andhra Pradesh government employees' 'Chalo Vijayawada' despite police denying them permission, Director General of Police Gautam Sawang on Friday met Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy.
When situation demands or when the decisions are taken in haste, a step forward is not wrong. It is rather a step towards victory.
AP Employees have come out onto the roads to protest against the government on the issue of PRC.
The Bharatiya Janata Party’s attempt to make a big issue over the police denying permission to Hindu groups to unfurl national flag at Jinnah Tower in Guntur district was successfully foiled by the Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy government in Andhra Pradesh.
The massive turnout of Andhra Pradesh state government employees for the Chalo Vijayawada rally called by the PRC Sadhana Samithi demanding revoking of the GOs on pay revision is certainly a major embarrassment to chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy.
In a massive show of strength ahead of their indefinite strike from February 7, government employees and teachers from across Andhra Pradesh gathered in Vijayawada on Thursday, defying police ban and restrictions to press their demand for a higher pay revision.
Despite severe restrictions imposed by the police, cancellation of leaves by the Andhra Pradesh government and preventive arrest of several leaders, thousands of the state government employees took part in the Chalo Vijayawada rally on Thursday.
The Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy government has withdrawn all the remaining cases pending against the Kapu activists, who had agitated in 2016 for inclusion of the community in BC category and extension of reservations to them.
The face-off between the Andhra Pradesh government employees and the Jagan Mohan Reddy government reached its climax on Wednesday evening, hours before their proposed Chalo Vijayawada rally.
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The Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy government in Andhra Pradesh, which has been making all efforts to resolve the demands of the state government employees on pay revision amicably, has decided to take tough measures to curb their agitation.
Police in Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday started detaining leaders of the government employees and teachers' unions to foil 'Chalo Vijayawada' called by PRC Sadhana Samiti on Thursday.
There has been unanimous disappointment over the new union budget introduced by the Finance Minister Nirmala Seetharaman
The Vijayawada police have denied permission for the government employees to hold Chalo Vijayawada rally on February 3.
The Andhra Pradesh government told the state high court on Tuesday that there is absolutely no reduction in salaries of the employees in January compared to December; instead, there is an increase in the gross and net salaries.
The Andhra Pradesh high court on Tuesday issued interim directions to the Jagan Mohan Reddy government not to deduct money from DA arrears of the state governments in the name of recovery of four per cent differential amount between interim relief and latest fitment.
