Usually, huge presence of Jana Sainiks and youth would be seen at Pawan Kalyan’s meetings. But this time, construction workers are taking part in unexpectedly large numbers in Pawan’s ‘Long March’ protest in Vizag. The masons, plumbers, coolies and daily wage workers arrived from all over Godavari and North Coastal Andhra districts. Pawan is waging a battle against CM Jaganmohan Reddy’s indifference to creation of work opportunities to prevent suicides of construction workers.
Opposition parties are blaming black-marketing by YCP Ministers, MLAs and leaders for historic sand shortage which led to collapse of construction industry. As a result, constructions workers are going without work for last five months. The timeliness of Pawan protest has drawn huge crowds from different sections.
Analysts say that sand shortage and construction workers suicides is indeed a unique problem. It is undoubtedly a human error. CM Jagan has totally ignored the problem till it turned into a big crisis. It became a serious crisis as hundreds of lorries are transporting sand illegally to Hyderabad, Chennai and Bangalore. Workers’ unhappiness against Jagan Circar is clearly evident from the massive turnout at Long March.
