For the last few days, the YSR Congress party’s social media wing has stepped up campaign in the social media against the ongoing agitation by the state government employees against what they called “unscientific” pay revision causing big loss to the employees.
The YSRC has been reeling out statistics on the financial constraints of the Jagan Mohan Reddy government, state financial position due to implementation of welfare schemes, how it had paid 27 per cent interim relief to the employees for the last two and a half years and how the new pay scales are better in AP than in many other states etc.
At the same time, there were also strong postings in the social media against the unjust demands of the employees, their brazen attack on the chief minister on the PRC issue and their proposed indefinite strike.
A YSRC social media activist went to the extent of suggesting to Jagan that he should sack all the government employees forthwith as there is no use with them and instead, replace them with contract employees on the lines of village volunteers, who would do better job with less than half the salaries of the present employees.
Expectedly, Jagan’s media house Sakshi has also been carrying articles strongly against the employees’ strike for a better PRC. It has not been giving much coverage to the ongoing agitation by the employees.
The employees, too, seem to have taken to social media to highlight their demand and also against the government for misleading the people on the pay revision issue. They are also angry with Sakshi for launching a smear campaign against their strike.
For the last two days, a message has been in circulation in the WhatsApp groups of the AP employees, which has also been forwarded to the common people.
The message is that all the employees should stop subscription of Sakshi Telugu daily and watching Sakshi TV.
According to the message, all the employees must immediately stop buying Sakshi daily. There are more than 10 lakh employees, of which at least four to five lakh people have subscribed to Sakshi daily.
“With one just phone call to the vendors, the newspaper will be stopped within a day. If we all stop the subscription of Sakshi daily, its circulation would come down by half. This will hit the Sakshi management hard directly and the chief minister indirectly,” the message said.
The message also said that stopping subscription of Sakshi daily did not mean criticising the chief minister.
“It is only a pressure tactic,” the message added.
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