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Hyderabad:Weeks after its defeat in the Telangana assembly polls, the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has lost its grip over the Singareni coal workers union one of the countrys largest...
While the Communist Party of India (CPI)-linked All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) emerged as the winner in the Singareni Collieries Company Ltd (SCCL) trade union elections held Wednesday, the Congress-backed Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC) came a strong second place...
Although the Congress and the CPI are partners in the INDIA bloc of opposition parties at the national level and had contested the Telangana assembly polls together, they went separate ways in the trade union elections, with the INTUC now accusing the CPI of colluding with the BRS to defeat it...
The union polls, after a two-year delay, were scheduled to be held in October but according to Janak Prasad, general secretary of INTUC, Singareni, the SCCL management and the Telangana government pushed for postponement then too, citing lame excuses like the impending assembly elections...
A national-level INTUC leader told ThePrint: While the BRS and the CPI were in such collusion, our Congresss Telangana leaders and ministers who had just assumed power appeared disinterested in the Singareni polls..
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