YANAM (Puducherry): The post mortem report on the death of Regency Ceramics workers' union leader Murali Mohan has been doctored, a team of Left leaders has alleged.Leaders of the CPM, CPI, AP Rytu Coolie Sangham and a few other parties, who attended Mohan's funeral at Panduvari Petta of T Kothapalle village in I Polavaram mandal in East Godavari district, 7 km from Yanam, on Sunday, told reporters that the authorities of Yanam were gearing up to produce a false post mortem report to mislead the media and workers of the factory.Murali Mohan died allegedly in police lathi-charge at Yanam on Friday.CPM Visakhapatnam district secretary Ch Narasinga Rao alleged that the post mortem report, prepared at the instance of the Yanam administration, cited cardiac arrest as the reason for Murali Mohan's death.He said the union leader was brutally killed in police firing and demanded a judicial inquiry into the death and payment of Rs 25 lakh compensation by the Puducherry government to the bereaved family members and Rs10 lakh each to the workers injured in the police firing and lathi-charge.Reacting to RCL chairman GN Naidu's comments, the CPM leader blamed the loss of lives and massive destruction of property on the management.Estimating the loss in Friday's rampage at only `100 crore, the leftist leader said the management should take steps to run the factory for the sake of workers whose livelihood was at stake.Speaking to Express, Yanam in-charge administrative officer MV Subrahmanyam said police inquiry into Murali Mohan's death was in progress.The situation in Yanam was under control and no untoward incident had been reported since Friday evening, he claimed.People, who resumed normal life on Sunday after observing bandh on the previous day, blamed the unprecedented violence on political rivalry besides industrial unrest.Some rowdies of political leaders of East Godavi district were involved in the violence, they said.A section of workers and some rowdy elements from East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, killed the company's vice-chairman, Chandra Sekhar, and destroyed the factory and the educational institutions.The workers had no right now to demand reopening of the factory, said S Srinivas Rao, a local resident and worker of RCL.“Everyone knew that the management had been reluctant to entertain any union in the past two decades on the ground that unionism would affect production.But a section of workers, who were getting enough salary, unnecessarily created a crisis and killed Chandrasekhar following the custodial death of Murali Mohan.Yanam people will have to grapple with problems like violence hereafter,'' said J Satyanarayana, a resident.
Comments
0 comment