T, AP Staff of Secretariat Clash over Union’s Assets

By Express News Service

Published: 31st May 2014 08:46 AM

Last Updated: 31st May 2014 09:05 AM

HYDERABAD: Tension prevailed in the Secretariat here on Friday as Telangana employees insisted on bifurcation of assets of Secretariat Employees Association between AP and T employees. Secretariat Employees Association president U Murali Krishna and secretary A Padma Chary, along with the Seemandhra and Telangana employees, entered into a heated argument in their association hall.
The Secretariat has only one recognised union, of which both Telangana and Seemandhra employees are members. But, during the Telangana movement, Seemandhra employees and Telangana employees floated different organisations. For service matters like PRC and others, the Telangana and Seemandhra employees worked jointly in the recognised union. Now, with the state being divided, Telangana employees led by Padma Chary wanted division of the union too. The present room of the association is located in H-Block which has been allocated to the residuary state of AP.
Padma Chary, along with other Telangana employees, put up a board on Friday stating that the office room belonged to the Telangana Secretariat Employees Association, to which Association president Murali Krishna objected. Soon, Telangana and AP employees entered into a heated argument and police had to intervene to pacify the two groups.
Padma Chary said that Murali Krishna was not conducting general body meetings of the association, which promoted them to swing into action. He said that apart from membership fee amount, the gym and other assets had to be distributed between Telangana and AP employees. The matter was taken up with the chief secretary later.
Union Room
* Telangana employees wanted gym and other assets also to be distributed between the two states
* The matter was referred to the chief secretary