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JACTTEO-GEO thanks Jayalalithaa

By Our Special Correspondent

Chennai July 24. The JACTTEO-GEO, a key federation of State government employees unions, today hailed the Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, for having agreed to take back the dismissed employees.

The functionaries of the JACTTEO-GEO, who met here this evening, adopted a resolution "congratulating" the Chief Minister and the Tamil Nadu Government.

However, they appealed to the Chief Minister to take back the 2,200 employees, mostly union activists, who were arrested under the Essential Services Maintenance Act.

In a resolution, they said the 2,200 employees had not indulged in any violence and that they were only arrested under the ESMA for inciting or participating in the strike.

The union leaders would meet the Chief Secretary, Lakshmi Pranesh, tomorrow to urge her to impress upon the Chief Minister to reinstate the 2,200 employees too.

The Tamil Nadu Government Officials Union led by G. Suryamurthy, which quit the JACTTEO-GEO, did not attend today's meeting.

The former president of the Secretariat Employees Association, R. Padmanabhan, thanked the Chief Minister for the gesture and appealed to her to reinstate the others too, as they were `innocent' and would always treasure her "humane nature".

The TNGOU, which quit the federation of JACTTEO-GEO and COTA-GEO, in a statement, reiterated that they awaited only the verdict of the Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa. For, only she had the powers to give a "verdict" on the pay loss and break in service suffered by the dismissed staff and the criminal proceedings pending against 2,200 other employees, said Mr. Suryamurthy.

He said he was hopeful of getting an audience with the Chief Minister to impress upon her to "magnanimously" decide on giving full pay for the dismissed employees and reinstating the employees facing criminal proceedings.

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