Advani woos Govt, PSU staff with better pay package

Advani woos Govt, PSU staff with better pay package

7 May 2009, 0228 hrs IST, ET Bureau
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NEW DELHI: After wooing the personnel of the armed forces by promising to execute the one-rank-one-pension scheme and ensuring tax-exemption, BJP
has now turned its gaze on another important section — employees of the central and state governments, as also those working in various public sector undertakings.

A day before the fourth phase of polls, L K Advani, BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, promised to set right the “anomalies” in the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations, and to take steps to strengthen PSUs if NDA was voted to power.

“I appeal to all government and PSU employees in Delhi and elsewhere to vote for the candidates fielded by BJP and its allies in NDA,” Mr Advani said in a statement issued on the eve of the fourth phase of Lok Sabha elections. If elected to power, NDA would, Mr Advani said, set right the “anomalies” in the Pay Commission’s recommendations “which have led to dissatisfaction among Group B, C and D category employees”.

The BJP leader’s assurance was calculated to lure the government employees, who were, in the assessment of the party, in either case, very angry with the Manmohan Singh government for its failure to rein in prices of essential commodities and tax rates of home loans, into backing his party.

Government employees constitute an important segment in constituencies such as New Delhi, East Delhi and South Delhi while public sectors undertakings are present in various parts of India. Besides being voters themselves, they were also seen as opinion-makers.

Mr Advani also suggested formulation of a suitable policy to help government employees own a house after retirement. He, at the same time, accused the government of pursuing “anti-worker policies” and said this had resulted in “a lot of anguish and anger among PSU employees, especially employees of the Oil Sector PSUs”.

An NDA government, he sought to assure, will “sympathetically” look into the grievances of PSU employees, fulfiling their “legitimate demands” and ensuring “speedy justice in cases of victimisation”, he said in a bid to woo the 16.14 lakh-strong employees of PSUs dotted all across the country. He pledged to further strengthen public sector, especially infrastructure development.
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Advani tells PSU, Govt employees to vote for BJP
Promising to look into the grievances of government and public sector unit employees and removal of anomalies in the Sixth Pay Commission, BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate L K Advani today appealed to all government officials to vote for his party.
"I appeal to all government and PSU employees in Delhi and elsewhere to vote for the candidates fielded by BJP and its allies in the NDA (for May 7 polls)," Advani said in a statement.
The veteran leader promises that if elected to power, BJP-led NDA would set right the anomalies in the Sixth Pay Commission's recommendations, which has led to dissatisfaction among Group B,C and D category employees.
He also suggests formulation of a suitable policy to help government employees own a house after retirement.
Accusing the UPA of neglecting the needs of PSU employees, Advani says in his statement, "There is a lot of anguish and anger among PSU employees, especially employees of the Oil Sector PSUs".

BJP's Infrastructure Vision

BJP seems to have a vision that will help PSUs to grow. Please read the relevant pages from the whole document below..

BJP's Infrastructure Vision

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Professionals Party of India- Elections 2009

Professionals we too are. We may be Oilmen or PSU men but we too are Professionals. We too understand the need to "BE THE CHANGE THAT WE WANT TO SEE" that people Like Meera Sanyal, Independent or Dr Mona Patel Shah and Rajendra Thacker of the Professionals Party of India seek to do.

I have all along being arguing in different forums-inside my own organisation and now outside that unless better people come forward and we are stuck with the same old leaders we cannot hope to get anything better.

So the solution is only twofold. Actually it is only one. Get one solution the other will come automatically:-

1. Get new people -- get them in great numbers- give the Voters a chance to choose better people. Professionals/ selfless/ those who are interested and also know how to work for the country. Not just words but real action
2. The first will either be the solution in itself OR SCARE THE EXISTING ones TO DELIVER or lose their seats.

Simple ONE SOLUTION leading into the second.

As of now this BLOG SUPPORTS BJP and its PM Candidate LK Advani.

But we do not belong to BJP or are Political. We Want the BEST to happen. As of now BJP seems to be that Promise as far as we are concerned (we have argued in suport of our seeming selfishness earlier here) and so are open to "VOTE for INDIA" campaign also and in that line of thought we post the link to the Professionals Party of India web site and ask the readers to connect with them for a long drawn process to CHANGE INDIA.

The link is http://www.ppi.net.in/index.aspx?Id=1

However one doubt remains which I need to ask, why even in this process we find a waste of efforts / splitting of votes between Meera Sanyal, a professional but independent candidate and Dr Mona Shah candidate of this new party? Are we behaving Professionally then? Are we not able to sort out differences here too? Then what is the POINT?

Anyway as I see it there are only two candidates so far in this new Party and they are in Mumbai. Somewhere somebody has to start. They have started. Ok. Fine.. But until we have candidates from all over we have to vote for others at other places. So we will STILL VOTE FOR BJP.