MALDA, Feb 20: Following complaints from various quarters, Intuc leaders today called off its 12-hour strike slated on 21 February in Malda district.
The Intuc district president had given a bandh call in protest against the Indian Railway Board's decision to form a new railway division in Bhagalpur, Bihar. Local residents, students and political leaders including Congress members were against the bandh. Giving in to the mounting pressure on the Congress affiliated labour front, the district Intuc president Mr Narendranath Tiwari today said his organisation called off the strike in response to the request by the Malda MP, Mr AH Khan Choudhury. “He asked us to postpone it following a telephonic conversation with the railway minister Mr Lalu Prasad Yadav and other Congress leaders. We accepted his proposal,” Mr Tiwari said.
“The Malda MP has assured me that the formation of the Bhagalpur railway division would not affect the interests of the Malda railway division. In case the working of the Malda railway division is affected, we would stage a protest”, he said. n SNS
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