Overview
- The RSS-affiliated Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh says more than 15,000 contract and outsourced workers were removed across Odisha and has formally urged Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi to intervene.
- BMS launched a Satyagraha outside the Odisha Legislative Assembly that began on May 18 and says the sit-in is intensifying after conciliatory talks with Deputy Chief Minister Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo on May 24 failed to yield a solution.
- The union accuses four Tata Power-operated distribution companies of carrying out mass retrenchments as a cost-cutting move and demands immediate reinstatement, full back wages, continuity of service, and legal safeguards.
- BMS alleges the dismissals violated Sections 25-F and 25-N of the Industrial Disputes Act and warns that reduced technical staff could hamper transformer maintenance and emergency restorations, creating longer outages for households, farms, and small industry.
- The union is threatening indefinite, statewide agitations unless the BJP-led state government calls a high-level tripartite meeting and adopts an 'Odisha Outsourcing Model' to guarantee job security and standard conditions for contract workers.