RMS reaffirms ties with BJD

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Rourkela: The Rourkela Mazdoor Sabha (RMS), an affiliate of the Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS), has come out openly against HMS state president and former MLA Rajendra Prasad alias ‘Raju’ Singh after the latter joined the Odisha Jana Morcha (OJM), an outfit launched by suspended Biju Janata Dal (BJD) leader Pyari Mohan Mohapatra.

Addressing a press conference here today, RMS leader and working president of HMS state committee Bidyadhar Barik said Singh’s decision to join OJM was entirely his own individual decision and the RMS had nothing to do with it. “The RMS is a free, independent and democratic union and is not affiliated to any political party. Each member of RMS is free to align with any party as long as it does not harm the organization,” he said.

Barik, however, made no secret of where his sympathies lay when he said; “The BJD, which has no trade union of its own, has been supporting the cause of HMS and, by extension, RMS for years now and the relationship remains intact.”

Terming the period from 1967 to 1995, when RMS was the recognized trade union of Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP), as the ‘golden period’ for the workers’ class in the city, Barik reiterated the RMS demand for the fifth blast furnace at RSP, up-gradation of Ispat General Hospital (IGH) to a medical college and establishment of an Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) medical college and hospital in Rourkela.

RMS deputy general secretary Brundaban Sahoo, vice-presidents S N Jena, Gunanidhi Bal, Pravakar Champati Ray and many office bearers of the union were present at the press meet.

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