The Communist Party of India (CPI) leaders have today urged the chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy to swiftly look into the matter of the matters pertaining to contract employees in Andhra Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation (APTDC).  The leaders have told the chief minister  that earlier minister Vatti Vasanth Kumar promised that the problems of contract employees would be resolved but said he didn’t kept his promise. To make a point, the CPI leader Chada  Venkata Reddy told the CM that nearly 90 per cent of employees in APTDC are contract based.  Keeping in view the same, the government should look at the magnitude of the problem, he added.

The delegation of CPI met the CM at his camp office in Hyderabad and handed over a memorandum of request to this effect. The government, on the other hand, made no statements over the letter of request. 

It may be recalled that earlier such demands came from APTDC contract members who were then demanding the government for regularizing their jobs. But the government has kept this issue pending. The political analysts are wondering whether this is a clever move by the CPI to gain the confidence of contract employees to its side.(Phani)