Patna, (Bihar Times): Leaders of different striking unions have trained their guns on the chief minister Nitish Kumar and deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi for creating a situation that led to the indefinite strike. The strike entered seventh day on Tuesday with no sight of end in the near future.

The strike had not only hit the work in secretariat and different collectorate but has its impact on the health services. Almost all the government hospitals are either closed or are hardly functioning. All the medical colleges and hospitals, including the PMCH, wore a deserted look. Poor patients are the worst hit as they can not afford private treatement.

The leader alleged that the government was trying to sow seeds of disunity among different unions and warned that this strategy would not work. In a joint statement, union leaders Manjul Kumar Das, Anil Kumar Singh and Rambali Prasad said on Monday that they had been persistently submitting memoranda to the government, but neither CMnor deputy CM nor even the officials concerned paid any heed to it.

The government ignored the pleas and demands for the removal of anomalies in grade fixation. Had the government responded then there would have been no problem and the situation would not have led to the strike, they alleged.

Bihar Secretariat Service Association (BSSA) general secretary Anil Kumar Singh said that Nitish should intervene and personally look into the matters involved for the amicable resolution of all disputes through dialogue. Most leaders of both BSSA and other unions felt that deputy CM was largely to be blamed for the present situation, Singh said, adding that he has been presenting misleading statistics on the matters.

Bihar State Non-gazetted Employees’ Federation (Gope faction) maintained that the government, by holding talks with association not on strike, was trying to divide the rank of the striking employees. This tactics of the government would not work, said its general secretary Rameshwar Singh.

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