What is next?

              What is next?

Dear Comrades! My close friend and once an activist in the forefront of our AIBSNLEA and retired now like me, asked this question with grave concern. I like other comrades spread over India now still remaining in service and not idle in home having retired, seriously started thinking for about  a week after the announcement of the MVP results that shook us all. This much decline we never expected as the GS, Com. Sivakumar created confidence in our minds so that we could get more than 10,000 votes including the ready offer of 3,500 votes from another Association. But the slogan of JAI SRIRAM unusually echoed in our websites which was believed to fetch Success as in the case of fascist fundamentalists, shocked me like other comrades as we are afraid as though  our non-political Association have become a coloured one. 

Now we came to know through our organisation that our strength was reduced to 3,700 due to VRS and other organisational reasons. Unlike in the past after first MVP, we do not have the facilities that would be extended to the first and second organisations. We are not sure whether the recovery of subscription from salary of our members will be permitted to all other associations including ours or not. 

In this critical juncture, our leaders have to think for the reorganisation of our Association at all levels with the available serving Executives while many of our office bearers at all levels of our organisation hitherto function have retired. So the Reorganisation may be our first priority.

Mutual accusations will bear no fruit but the persons knowing well for this crushing set back should themselves come forward accepting the moral respinsibility at all levels and hand over the torch to the young and energetic elements so that the smooth running of our Association is never allowed to become stranded.

It is really a welcome move of SNEA for unification of organisations. It was expressed in their CHQ website. I may be wrong in understanding the depth of the language they used. About ten years ago, in Chennai CWC of our Association, Com Kovil, then the GS of SNEA who was fondly invited to address by Com.Prahlad Rai, the GS, even in our subjective committee meeting after Open Session assured for the merger of our two Associations. The thundering response of the house shown to his speech echoed the expectations of all members including the SNEA leaders who accompanied him to the meeting. We need not go to the past to reanalyze the reasons for the failure of the said move which is of no use. The strength of unity is well understood but Unity even at this critical days while the very existence of our Mother BSNL is in jeopardy, coming closer is still a mirage and a long day dream. 

The current situation prevailing in all the planes in our country need not be explained. The autocratic Central 

administration will not be helpful for the revival of BSNL though our Hon'ble  MOC, Sri.Ravi shankar prasad declared in Parliament to our favour on Revival of BSNL. So for each and every issue, our strong one-piece  unity only will be a helping hand. Though whatever votes our Associations got, it will not make a breakthrough in solving the problems both of ourselves and of BSNL. 

Our solid unity to be built among all Non-executive unions and Executive Associstions invariably only will give confidence among the remaining work force a part of which was mailed under VRS. 

No time to breath in. Reorganisation through infusion of hot blood into the leadership and making the old guards as the guiding light to make the organisation walk in the right path are the priorities!

Let us move forward with all assertiveness. While we are small, we must be like the bullets! In turn, if we are big, we must be the guns! Without these two, war could not be won!

N.Veerapandian,

Ex.C.S./AIBSNLEA,

Tamilnadu Circle.

27.08.2020.