CPI(M) on Friday complained to Telecom Minister Manoj Sinha about the non-working of the MTNl's internet lines installed in their party office for the past week, despite repeated alerting all the telecom officials. In a letter to the Minister, the party general secretary Sitaram Yechury said that from August 11, all the broadband connections of MTNl at CPI(M) party head quarters AKG Bhawan not working.
"It is with utmost regret that I have to approach you. At the CPI(M) headquarters we have five Fibre to Home connections provided by the public sector MTNl. All these connections have not been working since the evening of August 11, 2017. It has been over a week now. In these days when the entire emphasis is on communication, commerce, banking etc through the internet, you can well imagine how much our work has beenaffected due to this disruption.
"Repeated complaints from our office to various authorities at the MTNl failing to yield any response, I am compelled to approach you to instruct the concerned authorities in the MTNl, falling under your ministry, to restore services immediately," said Yechury. He also urged the Minister to enquire whether the interruption in service was "deliberate" attempt.