Srinagar: A high-level delegation of Centaur Hotel Employees Association led by young BJP leader and DDC Member Er Aijaz Hussain today met BJP J&K chief Ravinder Raina and urged over the unemployment issue of scores of Hotel employees who have been left to lurch after J&K government recently sealed the hotel in wake of an alleged violation of lease agreement by the Hotel Corporation of India (HCI).
The delegation led by Er Aijaz also comprised the CHEA president Muhammad Shafi and General Secretary Ghulam Haider apprised the J&K BJP chief about the hanging fate of scores of employees who have been earning their livelihood by serving at the hotel for the past many decades.
The delegation told Ravinder Raina that they have nowhere to go and their families including children were left in the middle and in the days ahead, with no source of income, they will be left for starvation.
Er Aijaz while pleading the case of CHEA urged Ravinder Raina to intervene and to take up the matter of the fate of hundreds of Centaur Hotel Employees with the higher forms so that they are not forced to hit the streets in the days ahead due to starvation.
Er Aijaz pleaded with Ravinder Raina to take up the issue with the LG Manoj Sinha and other concerns so that the employees of Centaur hotel aren’t left jobless and their families are taken due care.
Er Aijaz while stressing on the fact that Centaur was the famous hotel of Srinagar where many VVIPs have stayed in the past was an asset that has been protected by its employees, adding that the interest of these employees should be safeguarded.
Speaking on the occasion, president of the CHEA Muhammad Shafi sought Ravinder Rain’s personal interest in resolving their grievance. He said that they are living a tough life and that they shouldn’t be rendered jobless in any case and if that happens, their families and children will die of hunger.
Meanwhile, the J&K BJP chief Ravinder Raina said he will do everything possible and ensured that the employees wouldn’t be left jobless.
He promised the delegation that their issues will be taken with the higher officials on a fast track basis.
(KNO)