We have been getting inquiries from all over the country as to what had happened on 16th November in the Supreme Court during the hearing of the Majithia case. Many employees from the newspapers were present in the court room and they have communicated the information to other employees, yet the curiosity still persists. Although no hearing has taken place on that date yet for the employees, particularly of the Ushodaya Publications, the publishers of the multi edition Eenadu newspaper, there appeared to be the silver linings of hopes when, Senior Advocate Mr. Gopal Subramaniam sought time to from the Court to discuss the details of the implementation of the Majithia Wage Board from his client Mr. Ramoji Rao, the owner of the newspaper.
It
must be mentioned here that Eenadu is the first newspaper in the country which
started its publication from all the district headquarters of undivided Andhra
Pradesh, from which Telangana has also been carved out. It is a widely
circulated newspaper and the proprietor of the newspaper Mr. Ramoji Rao wields
enormous clout in the political and bureaucratic set-up of both states. It is believed that Ramoji Rao, once a CPI card
holder, now a Media Czar, can make or mar the career or prospect of any body
and that is the is the reason; that no politician, regardless of his /her
colour, can go against his will and wish. Hundreds of employees of the
newspaper have been forced to resign after the verdict of the Supreme Court in
the Majithia case but the travesty is that they have been retained either on
the voucher payment or on the ad hocbasis. The Labour departments of both
states have no courage to ask the Media Mughal to abide by the law and they
have practically been reduced to handmaids of Ramoji Rao.
To be fair to Mr. Gopal Subramaniam, the Ld.
Senior Counsel, who assured the bench consisting of Justice Ranjan Gogoi and
Justice Abhay Manohar Sapre that he would prevail upon his management to ensure
that the order of this Court was implemented in its letter and spirit. It was heartening to hear him saying that
‘implementation does not mean facial implementation but complete
implementation’. In their rejoinder, the employees of the Ushodaya
Publications, said that ‘not proper’ but only a ‘pretence of implementation’
has been made by the newspaper.
As per the earlier order the Legal Issues
were to be framed but before the argument could be started, the Senior Advocate
for Dainik Jagran Mr. Anil Diwan raised the preliminary objections about the
framing of the issues. However, Justice Gogoi rejected his objections. But in
the meantime, Mr. Gopal Subramaniam got up and sought time for verifying the
facts from his client so as to report back to the court with the factual
position and the court readily agreed to his request, which came with positive
assertions.
It is interesting to note here that the
Management of the Jagran Prakashan Ltd. is the worst contemnor has been
changing its advocates in almost every hearing of the case. It started with the
Senior Advocate Mr. P.P. Rao, then came Senior Advocate Mr. Kapil Sibal in the
next hearing. When Mr. Sibal refused to defend the newspaper another Senior
Advocate Mr. Aryaman Sundaram was engaged. But when he found that there was no
way to save the newspaper, he got himself discharged. Surprisingly, Dainik
Jagran management has brought in the last date of hearing i.e. 16.11.2016,
another Senior Counsel, Mr. Anil Diwan. It is said that once Mr. Diwan comes to
know about the glaring mischief of the management, he may not possibly agree to
defend the notorious management next time.
Parmanand Pandey
Secretary General-IFWJ
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