MPs from State working for AMNS instead of VSP: CPI(M)
'It is surprising that these MPs are working in favour of a private steel company instead of fighting for the VSP, a PSU that has been struggling for decades without proper captive mines, even after the disinvestment proposal announcement was made by the Centre,' said CPI(M) Visakhapatnam district secretary M. Jaggunaidu.
The Centre has provided captive mines to all government and private steel plants except the VSP, resulting in the cost of production, he said.
'A total of 67 Communist, Independent MPs and MLAs had resigned in the past to get RINL-VSP locally, but these elected representatives of the NDA government are trying to destabilise the VSP with their conspiratorial thoughts and actions,' he said.
The CPI(M)district executive committee members B. Jagan, V. Krishna Rao, R. K. S. V. Kumar, P. Mani, M. Subba Rao, USN Raju, Y. Raju, GVN Chalapathi, G. Apparao and P. Venkata Reddy participated in the protest.
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