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Municipal staff stage protest in Vijayawada seeking fulfilment of poll promises by CM

Municipal workers and employees demanded that Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy should fulfil the promises he made to them before the elections.

Led by the Andhra Pradesh Municipal Workers and Employees’ Federation (APMWEF) and CITU, they staged a protest at Dharna Chowk here on Monday.

Addressing the gathering, APMWEF State general secretary K. Umamaheswara Rao said that Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy promised equal pay for equal work, regularisation of contract and outsourced workers, welfare schemes for municipal workers, health and risk allowance for engineering workers, ₹18,500 salary for Clean Andhra Pradesh vehicle drivers but his government is deceiving the workers without fulfilling the promises.

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