Hundreds of Town and Youth Congress members and MCl employees of Ib Valley coal field took out a bike rally on Friday night from Gandhi Chouk to Kalyan Mandap as a gesture to welcome INTUC national president G Sanjeeva Reddy.
Odisha Colliery Mazdoor Sangh (OCMS) vice president Bijesh Sharma said Reddy was first elected as INTUC president on August 3, 1994 and since then he has been unanimously elected to the post for the fifth consecutive term. He informed that the INTUC has more than 3.35 crore members across India and more than 10,000 members are in OCMC, an union of the MCl workers and employees which is affiliated to the INTUC.
Reddy said that MCl should take care of the employees in every corner after retirement and provide them medical facilities. He criticized the Modi Government for a new labourer Act to facilitate privatisation and disinvestment. landoustees should be the shareholders of the company, Reddy demanded.
Kishore Chandra Patel was nominated as president and Soubhagya Pradhan as general secretary of OCMS on the occasion. OCMS Orient Area secretary Alok Panda, lakhanpur Area secretary Rabindra Singh, IB Valley Area joint secretary Kalia Bishi, Brajrajnagar Town Congress president Pramod Panda, Youth president Dewesh Panda, lakhanpur Block president Sanat Singh and former block president Goutam Pradhan were present.