WE ARE STARVING FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE IN ANDHRA PRADESH!
When I was working in a government-run cooperative society (I worked there for 20 years), I was made to work as a subordinate as long as nine years under a government officer drawing less than my pay. If it were others, they would definitely cry foul over such a practice!
When there was a vacancy to which I could be promoted, I was not given that position on a variety of fake alibis and pleas- young age, or technical person not usually taken for an administrative job, or a servant of a firm run by a government could never be equivalent to a government servant, or experience, qualifications and salary drawn could never be the criteria for promotion. This is the Andhra kind of apartheid!
When I pleaded down on my knees with the chairman of an upper caste for promotion (in 1994), he said:
“How it possible to give you any kind of advancement which may leave a certain group dissatisfied? That group had joined much before you did.” They were all lower-grade employees belonging to upper castes! My qualifications, experience and salary were not accepted as criteria.
That group consists of members from his community; he and the group already had a private conversation to turn down any kind of requests from me for my promotion.
Ironically and curiously, the chairman belonging to an upper caste sneaked into a cooperative society meant for handloom weavers! He espoused the interests of upper caste employees disregarding my eligibility, most atrociously, by taking membership in a society established for backward weavers!
When regularizing the services of daily wage employees also, the chairman in collusion with the other officers belonging to upper castes, benefited only those of upper castes and henchmen of upper-caste officers in the process of regularization. Sadly, all those daily wage employees belonging to backward castes were shown the door, on the plea of economic revamp of the organization!
After some years, when Chandrababunaidu was humoring the World Bank by downsizing the organizations although such organizations were running in profits, I and other employees belonging to only backward classes were identified as candidates for downsizing! Even IAS officers believed to be impartial played into the games of upper caste officers! We lost our jobs!
Only Mega Leader Chiranjeevi who has taken social justice as a primary plank in the elections is our hope now.
