The leaders and members of the Visakha Ukku Parirakshana Porata Committee on Sunday demanded Prime Minister Narendra Modi make his stand clear on the RINL-Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP) privatisation during his proposed visits to the State as part BJP’s campaign for the general elections.
“We will vote for those who have made a clear statement before the polls that they will stop the privatisation,” they said at the protest ‘Ukku Garjana’, ongoing for its 1,165th day at Kurmannapalem. They also called upon VSP’s 30,000 staff, workers and their families to vote for the political party that cleared their stance in their respective manifestos on the protection of the steel plant.
“We want to teach a lesson to the political parties who have created several hurdles and pushed the company towards losses for the three years,” said one of the leaders, J. Ayodhyaram.
