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CPI(M) blames government

kochi: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) Central committee, currently in session here, has said that the responsibility for the impasse following disruption in the supply of petroleum products and the resultant hardship of the people must rest squarely with the government.

Briefing reporters about the Central committee deliberations here on Friday, Polit Bureau member Sitaram Yechury pointed out that oil company officers’ demand for wage revision had been pending for a long time. Instead of addressing the long-standing demand, the government had compelled the Oil Sector Officers’ Association (OSOA) to resort to a strike, he said.

The CPI(M) Central committee, Mr. Yechury said, had adopted a resolution condemning the repressive measures unleashed by the government upon the striking officers of the 14 oil public sector undertakings. Leading figures of the OSOA and many others had been suspended or dismissed from service in different parts of the country and the Central government had issued an advisory to all State governments to invoke the Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) to suppress the officers’ collective democratic expression of their demands.

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