Protesting sanitation workers call on TVK chief Vijay at party office

Representatives of the protesting Greater Chennai Corporation conservancy workers on Monday met Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) president Vijay at his party’s headquarters in Panaiyur. After interacting with them, Mr. Vijay said that the party would stand with the workers and also support their legal battle.

“Taking into account that if I had visited the protest site it would have caused hindrance to traffic and resulted in inconvenience to the public, the workers came and met me at the party headquarters,” Mr. Vijay said in a post on X.

Hitting out at the DMK, Mr. Vijay said the workers explained their plight which would melt even a stone-hearted person. It was evident that the current government was only focused on publicity and lacked humanity and conscience, he added.

The DMK had promised job regularisation for the workers when in Opposition, and the fact that the party had not fulfilled that promise was highly condemnable, Mr. Vijay said.

In line with both the letter written on 19.01.2021 by the present Chief Minister (the then Leader of the Opposition) supporting the demands of the sanitation workers, and the DMK’s Election Manifesto Promise No. 153, the government must regularise the workers’ jobs and fulfil its promise, he said.