FORUM IN DEFENCE OF CPSUs Central Headquarters, New Delhi. No Forum/CPSUs/2/3-09 Dated 24" March,09. To Respected Shri Manmohan Singh Ji, Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, South Block, New Delhi. Sub: Holding of rally on 27" March ’09 and submission of memoranda. Respected Sir, This is in continuation to our letter no Forum/CPSUs/1/3-09 wherein we have explicitly stated that the officers of all strategic CPSUs are fully determined and committed to secure justice for the officers of the Oil Sector whose services have been arbitrarily terminated/put under suspension for the simple reason that they gave vent to their genuine and justified grievances through democratic and legitimate means of protest. That the Minister of Petroleum and Natural gas became so much vindictive for very peaceful and democratic protest actions simply demonstrates undermining legitimate democratic process, of which protest is an integral and inalienable ingredient, and on which the very pillars of Indian democracy have been built. We are confident that as head of Indian democratic system of governance of rule of law, your Hon'ble self shall never accept such draconian attacks on democratic functioning of institutions which form the very basis of democracy. That is why we have sought your benign immediate intervention about which we are quite confident.We make yet again an impassioned appeal to your Hon'ble self to go into the entire issue of unwarranted victimization of officers of oil sector, keeping in view the very serious and undesirable impact such draconian actions of Minister of petroleum and Natural gas will have on democratic and legitimate functioning of Trade unions and Associations. We are quite confident that, in broader and larger perspective of encouraging democratic means of protest, your Hon’ble self will decisively intervene by setting aside all the unjustified and arbitrary punitive actions. However, as a first step of expressing solidarity with the victimized officers of the Oil Sector, the Forum in defence of CPSUs is holding a Rally on 27 March, 09 during Lunch hours. The Rally will start from BSNL Corporate office and culminate at Parliament street police Station. Necessary arrangements may kindly be made for the receipt of our memoranda enlisting our genuine grievances and the grounds prompting us to seek your kind intervention. With kind regards, Sincerely Yours, G.L.Jogi, OC ey 1.Sh Shakeel Ahmed, DDG(SR), for kind information please. 2. SHO, Parliament Street Police Station for providing police protection and making other arrangements. Copy to: