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SIVASAGAR: The Sangrami Yuba Chatra Parishad along with three other organizations, namely Brihattar Asomiya Yuva Mancha, Ahom Jatiya Gana Mancha and Mech-Kachari Jatiya Parishad, Sivasagar District Committee, staged a protest in front of the ONGC, Assam Asset Head Office at Nazira and Sivasagar in support of their 48-hour ONGC bandh call on Thursday.
The bandh, which began at 5 am, had been called to protest against the appointment process in the ONGC as the organizations alleged that locals had been deprived of being appointed in various posts in ONGC.
The members of the organizations picketed in front of different offices and workshops of ONGC and restricted vehicles from transporting officers and employees to their respective offices and sites. Meanwhile, 40 protesters were detained in Nazira and another 12 protesters, including president of Sangrami Yuba Mancha’s Sivasagar Town Committee, Rajesh Das, were apprehended in Sivasagar.
Earlier, on Wednesday, ONGC had made an appeal to the agitating organizations not to resort to the proposed ONGC bandh. ONGC also appealed to the people and business partners (contractor unions) to cooperate and to withdraw the proposed ONGC bandh to ensure uninterrupted supply of oil and gas for the nation’s growth.
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