In protest, pensioners today demonstrated vigorously in which hundreds of retired pensioners from various institutions like Roadways, Essential Commodities Corporation, PCF, Uptran, Setu Nigam, Forest Corporation, Scooter India, FCI, HAL etc. joined EPFO.
KS Tiwari, Rajiv Bhatnagar, Raj Shekhar Nagar, Ashok RN Dwivedi, Rajesh Tiwari, PC Kuril, Ashok Bajpai, Satish Agnihotri, RC Mishra, Shamsul, Manjit Singh, Subhash Choubey, Dilip Pandey, Vijay Singh, SP Awasthi, AP Singh, Harishchandra Tripathi, Geeta Verma, Sunil Sonkar, Akhilesh Dayal etc., while addressing many speakers said that two hundred pensioners are dying every day.
Those who are alive, their economic condition is pathetic, but the government is not paying any attention, after repeated promises, no announcement has been made yet. Pensioners will protest against this until their demands are met. Gujarat and In Himachal Pradesh, by expressing their protest in the election meetings, they will keep their demands and if the government does not take any concrete decision, then they will boycott the elections.