Pondy: Demo on Min remarks on Pontex
Puducherry,
Sep
10:
Members
of
the
Handloom
Trade
Protection
Committee
comprising
CITU,
AITUC,
AICCTU,
INTUC,
ATU
and
Pontex
trade
union
today
took
out
a
procession
and
held
a
demonstration
in
front
of
the
Legislative
Assembly
to
protest
Welfare
Minister
M
Kandasamy's
remarks
on
the
clothes
supplied
by
Pontex
for
free
distribution.
The Communist Party of India(Marxist) State Secretary V Perumal and former Secretary T Murugan led the procession.
They later submitted a memorandum to Chief Minister N Rangasamy pointing out that the administration had granted them the contract for the supply of clothes meant for free distribution in 1996 as their trade became sick and to retrive them from their plight.
The clothes were being supplied for the last several years and there were no complaints on the quality. However, the Minister had stated recently that the quality of the clothes supplied by Pontex was not satisfactory and the Government would purchase polyester clothes from private parties for Diwali festival.
They demanded that Mr Kandasamy should withdraw his statement and urged Mr Rangasami to protect the lives of thousands of handloom weavers in the Union Territory.
UNI