Labourers hired for PM's event in B'luru claim non-payment of dues

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru: It happens in most political parties. Progammes are organised with great fanfare and people are brought together in the thousands with workers made to toil through day and night. But when it's all over and the leaders have disappeared, promises are quietly forgotten leaving those who sweated it out, furious.

It happened to a group of labourers who were hired to work for the unveiling of Bengaluru’s founder Nadaprabhu Kempedowda’s 108 foot tall statue, an event which was attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself and bigwigs of the state govern- ment a couple of days ago.

They have now reportedly lodged a police com- plaint alleging that their employer has failed to pay them the promised wages. The complaint has been filed at Sidlaghatta police station in Chikkaballapur against local BJP leader Nandeesh.

According to the cops, the labourers were hired to work at the statue site at BIAL. It is alleged that Nandeesh had promised to pay each worker a sum of Rs 500, however, he allegedly offered Rs 100 after completion of the work.