Their future in the balance, contract employees protest outside Secretariat

Some of them were heard shouting slogans. “Aam aadmi yahaan hain, Kejriwal kahaan hain. (The common man is here, but where is Kejriwal).”

All of them were contract employees in the education and health sectors who claimed that Kejriwal had not addressed their issues. “Kahaan gai jan sunwai? (There was no public meeting)” one of them said.

Hundreds of teachers sat on the road, refusing to move till Kejriwal gave them a written assurance they would still be employed after their contracts expired on May 10.

Kejriwal tried addressing them in the afternoon, saying that he was looking into the issue but that such matters could be resolved immediately. An angry Kejriwal reportedly left when the association refused to listen.

“Kejriwalji took some of us inside but refused to talk on this issue. Our contracts are in favour of our employees and we want him to keep his word of providing us relief,” Sudhir said.

Employees from Delhi State Health Contractual Employees Sangathan, who were also protesting, claimed that Kejriwal didn’t meet them.

Meanwhile, seated in a wheelchair outside the CM’s office, Sudhir said he had to be helped up to the third floor and hadn’t eaten as he didn’t want to move from there.
“I came at 7 am. I want a shop allotted to me by the municipal corporation. I have been coming for several days to meet the CM…,” Sudhir said.

Finally, at 6 pm, Kejriwal met Sudhir Kumar on his way out and promised to look into the matter.