Workers Furious As Jk Cotton Revival Plan Runs Aground

Workers of JK Cotton Mills stoned the residence of Hindustan Mazdoor Sangh (HMS) leader Ram Kishore Tripathi on reports that he had obtained a stay from the Allahabad High Court on the BIFR proceedings for the revival of the closed mills.

After shouting slogans against Tripathi the workers demonstrated outside the residence of Vimal Mehrotra, state president of the HMS.

Mehrotra reportedly said that three persons, Ram Kishore Tripathi, Virendra Singh and a worker of JK Cotton, Shri Krishna, had approached the high court for a stay at the behest of the management.

The high court had granted a stay on October 7 last year on the application of Virendra Singh of the Suti Mill Mazdoor Union. The stay was, however, not made known to the workers of the mill which has been lying closed since May 15, 1989. The BIFR received a copy of the stay order on October 24, 1996. Since then it has put everything in the cold storage. The workers became aware of the stay only after the JK Workers Co-operative leader, Vishnu Shukla, went to the BIFR and obtained a copy of the same.