AP NGOs have served strike notice to Chief Secretary PK Mohanty on Tuesday. Around 3 lakh NGOs serving various departments like Revenue, Teachers, Treasury, Municipal, Panchayat, Excise, Commercial Taxes, RTC, Electrical, Medical, ICDS etc will join the indefinite strike to be started from August 12th protesting bifurcation of the state.

P Ashok Babu, the president of AP NGOs Association later speaking to the media has said “The UPA government has divided the state only to make Rahul Gandhi as Prime Minister. Our employees will be the first affected with this decision. Our lives and even our children’s lives are also hanging in the air with UPA decision. Many of us have settled in different places believing whichever place we work is our own place, but now we are facing threats from some persons to vacate our seats.”

“Center’s decision is going to adversely affect our promotions, service, seniority, increments, pensions every thing. It is prejudice and purely a political decision. We condemn it. We here by demand the Center to withdraw its decision or else we will continue till it reconsider its decision. It would have taken us into consideration before taking such a drastic step. But, it takes this decision to save the party in the state.”

“We demand all the people’s representatives to quit their posts on or before 12th of this month and join our agitations or else we will teach them a good lesson. We have already met Chandrababu and going to meet Botsa and other leaders of the region to submit memorandum. We will also try to give representation to Digvijay Singh and Sonia Gandhi soon.”

The high power committee constituted by the Center should first address all our problems then only go ahead with bifurcation process. If it blindly goes ahead with it, we will definitely fight it out," said Ashok babu.